Once completed, Hard Rock Bristol will feature a 3,200-seat Hard Rock Live indoor entertainment venue with an outdoor option that can accommodate 20,000 people.Ĭountry music memorabilia will be displayed throughout the complex, including pieces by legends Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Garth Brooks, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Buck Owens and Hank Williams. The permanent site – a $400 million expansion of the entire former Bristol Mall site – will, of course, be much larger in scale with more than 2,700 slot machines and more than 100 table games – not to mention a 750 room hotel, seven restaurants and four bars. Hard Rock officials said the temporary casino would create 600 jobs.

Plans include a new restaurant, sports bar and lounge, retail store and entertainment area. The temporary casino – at a Women’sBelk department store in the former Bristol Mall – is expected to have 30,000 square feet of gaming space, including 900 slot machines and 20 table games. Both projects are the first for Hard Rock in Virginia. The permanent development is expected to open in the next year and a half to two years, he said. Jon Lucas, the chief operating officer of Hard Rock International, said in a statement that the temporary casino should open sometime in the second quarter of 2022.

It is also the twin city of Bristol, Tennessee – just across the state line. Bristol, in southwest Virginia, is nicknamed the “birthplace of country music.” The Birthplace of Country Music Museum is located there – a musical connection that’s appealing to Hard Rock officials and country music fans. The temporary casino comes about a year after voters approved a referendum to allow casino gambling in the city of about 20,000 residents.

Hard Rock’s entry into the Virginia market in Bristol is set to materialize in 2022 as construction is now underway on a temporary casino in the city while plans for a permanent Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Bristol take shape. In the meantime, Hard Rock is opening a temporary casino at the site. This rendering shows a view of the entrance of the future Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Bristol in Bristol, Virginia.

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