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Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City
(formerly
Station Casino Kansas City
) is a
hotel
and
casino
located on the
Missouri River
in
Kansas City
,
Missouri
. It is owned by
Gaming and Leisure Properties
and operated by
Boyd Gaming
.
The 15,000 sq ft (1,400 m
2
) casino has 2,800 slot and video poker machines, 57 table games, a live poker room with 15 poker tables, exclusive high-limit slot and table games areas, and a 184-room hotel that includes 36 mini and 12 king suites.
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History
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The facility opened on January 16, 1997 as
Station Casino
.
Ameristar Casinos
acquired the property on December 19, 2000 and it was rebranded to its current name.
In August 2013, the property became part of Pinnacle Entertainment when that company acquired Ameristar Casinos.
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In April 2016, the property was sold to Gaming and Leisure Properties along with almost all of Pinnacle's real estate assets, and
leased back
to Pinnacle.
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In October 2018, Pinnacle sold the casino's operating business to
Boyd Gaming
, along with three other casinos, in connection with Pinnacle's acquisition by
Penn National Gaming
.
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The sale was required by
antitrust regulators
because Penn National already operated two casinos in the Kansas City area.
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The sale included a perpetual license to use the Ameristar name.
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References
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- ^
"Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City Fact Sheet"
(PDF)
.
Pinnacle Entertainment
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on June 1, 2012
. Retrieved
May 31,
2012
.
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Bryant, Tim (August 21, 2013).
"Icahn to return to St. Louis business prominence with Lumiere deal"
.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
. Retrieved
July 23,
2016
.
- ^
"Missouri Gaming Commission approves transfer of casino properties"
.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
. March 23, 2016
. Retrieved
July 23,
2016
.
- ^
"Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. completes the previously announced acquisition of the real estate assets of Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc"
(Press release).
Pinnacle Entertainment
. April 28, 2016. Archived from
the original
on 2016-08-22
. Retrieved
July 22,
2016
.
- ^
"Boyd Gaming completes acquisition of four Pinnacle Entertainment assets"
(Press release). Boyd Gaming. October 15, 2018
. Retrieved
2018-10-16
– via PR Newswire.
- ^
Andrew Vaupel (October 2, 2018).
"FTC orders sale of KC casino"
.
Kansas City Business Journal
. Retrieved
2018-10-16
.
- ^
"FTC requires casino operators Penn National Gaming, Inc. and Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. to divest assets in three Midwestern cities as a condition of merger"
(Press release). Federal Trade Commission. October 1, 2018
. Retrieved
2018-10-16
.
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