Caesars to continue to operate Windsor casino, province announces

CBC News

· Posted: May 09, 2025 12:24 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

Caesars Entertainment volition proceed to run Windsor's casino for the adjacent 2 decades, the provincial authorities announced Friday, aft a procurement process headed by the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG). 

The OLG and Caesars are expected to participate into the 20-year statement successful aboriginal 2026. 

The announcement was made by Stan Cho, Ontario's tourism minister, successful a quality league at the casino. 

"At a clip erstwhile geopolitical tensions are threatening to disrupt our economy, this caller statement betwixt OLG and Caesars brings stableness and bid of caput for thousands of section workers successful Windsor," Cho said.

"Given its beardown way record, intimate cognition of the sector, and long-standing enactment successful the community, our authorities is assured that Caesars volition proceed to service Windsor and the surrounding country good for galore years to come."

The casino archetypal opened successful Windsor successful 1994, but has been operated by Caesars for 17 years. It employs astir 1,800 people. 

The erstwhile statement betwixt the casino and the state had been extended aggregate times, astir precocious until March 2026. 

More to come.