Sugarhouse Casino Expansion
Sugarhouse Casino is one of the most reputable online gaming platforms in the US. It first went live in Pennsylvania in 2019, and its customer base has since doubled in size. Powered by Rush Street Interactive, Sugarhouse Casino has now spread out to other locations, most prominently New Jersey.
SugarHouse Casino, located in the Fishtown section of Philadelphia, celebrated a construction milestone with a topping off ceremony of a $164 million expansion on August 13, 2015. The expansion increases the casino floor space by 70 percent, adding 289 slot machines, space for 44 table games, and a 30,000 square foot multipurpose event space, as well as an additional 610 parking spaces.
Sugarhouse Casino Philadelphia Expansion
Sugarhouse Casino Expansion
The Harman Group was on hand at the event to celebrate their part in providing structural engineering services for the two-story, 156,000 square foot expansion.
“We are thrilled to again be a part of this amazing next phase of SugarHouse,” said Malcolm D. Bland, PE, LEED AP, Principal at The Harman Group. “Today we see a bigger and better SugarHouse that provides jobs for 1,200 Philadelphians and is a strong economic engine for this great City. This is a project we are proud to be a part of.”
The SugarHouse expansion continues the work The Harman Group completed on the existing 108,000 square foot gaming facility, which opened in 2010.
- SugarHouse Casino executives and owners, along with several politicians, officially broke ground Tuesday on a long-planned $164 million expansion of the Fishtown property. When SugarHouse opened in September 2010 - after delays caused by community opposition and financing struggles rooted in the 2007-08 economic collapse - it was considered an.
- As the first casino within Philadelphia city limits, SugarHouse aspired to entertain the city, bolster the economy, and benefit its local neighborhood — Fishtown. Constructed on the site of the former Jack Frost Sugar Refinery along the Delaware River waterfront, the $500 million, 25,000-sf casino opened in 2010.