Rosie's Gaming Emporium

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Rosie's Gaming Emporium
Industry Gambling
FoundedApril 2019;4 years ago (April 2019)
Headquarters
New Kent, Virginia
,
United States
Number of locations
7 (2023)
Area served
 Virginia, United States
Owner Churchill Downs, Inc.
Website rosiesgaming.com

Rosie's Gaming Emporium is a chain of gambling parlors in the U.S. state of Virginia, owned by Churchill Downs, Inc. and affiliated with its Colonial Downs racetrack. The Rosie's brand was established in 2019. As of 2023, there are seven Rosie's locations throughout Virginia, including a parlor at Colonial Downs in New Kent; five standalone parlors in Dumfries, Emporia, Hampton, Richmond, and Vinton; and a Rosie's Game Room in Collinsville within a Quality Inn hotel. A $389-million Rosie's property called The Rose Gaming Resort is under construction in Dumfries.

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Rosie's parlors offer off-track betting and historical horse racing machines that resemble slot machines and allow betting on archived horse races. [1] They do not feature any table games or traditional slot machines.

History

The background of Rosie's can be traced to 1992, when Virginia authorized up to six off-track betting (OTB) parlors to be operated by the state's yet-to-be-built horse track, subject to local referendum in each city or county. [2] The first OTB parlor opened in 1996, [3] ahead of Colonial Downs's opening in 1997. [4] In 2004, the number of allowed parlors was increased to ten. [5] [6] In 2014, Colonial Downs closed and ended its OTB operations. [7] [8]

In 2018, Virginia enacted a law to authorize historical horse racing machines at Colonial Downs and its OTB parlors, in an effort to make it economically viable to reopen the track. [9] The Virginia Racing Commission subsequently adopted regulations capping the total number of machines in the state at 3,000. [10]

The first Rosie's location was opened at Colonial Downs in New Kent on April 23, 2019, with 600 machines. [11] [12] Three standalone Rosie's locations opened later in 2019, with the Vinton location opening on May 9, [13] the Richmond location on July 1, [14] and the Hampton location on October 29. [15] These first parlors were opened in localities where voters had previously approved off-track betting. [7]

Voters in Dumfries approved off-track betting in November 2019, giving Rosie's access to the populous Northern Virginia market. [16] Construction on the fifth Rosie's Gaming Emporium in Dumfries began in 2020, [17] and the location opened on January 8, 2021. [18] Later that year, on July 22, Rosie's opened its sixth location, a 37-machine parlor at a Quality Inn hotel in Collinsville, branded as Rosie's Game Room. [19] [20]

In 2022 Colonial Downs's parent company, Peninsula Pacific Entertainment, sold the bulk of its assets, including Rosie's and Colonial Downs, to Churchill Downs, Inc. [21] [22]

A seventh location in Emporia opened on September 25, 2023. [23]

The Rose Gaming Resort

On February 15, 2021 a proposal was revealed by Colonial Downs for a $389 million Rosie's-branded gaming resort called The Rose Gaming Resort, which would stand on the site of the Potomac Landfill in Dumfries and be the only gaming resort in Northern Virginia. [24] The Dumfries Town Council approved the project on September 21, 2021. [25] Construction of the resort began in January 2022 as the landfill closed, with plans to open in late 2023 and total completion of the two phases expected in 2026. The resort will feature a 50,000-sq-ft gaming facility, 305 hotel rooms, 8 restaurants, a theater, and conference rooms, with the remaining unused 79 acres being converted into a park. [26] [27]

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