Rivers Casino To Build $60 Million North Shore Hotel

PITTSBURGH, PA - Rivers Casino plans to break ground this summer on a seven-story $60 million hotel. Called the Landing Hotel Pittsburgh, it will have 219 guest rooms and attach to the casino's east side, facing the Carnegie Science Center.

The hotel will feature expansive windows on every level with unobstructed views of the Ohio River and the city skyline. Included among the guest rooms are 10 luxury terrace suites, each with private first-floor patios.

No public money will be used to build the hotel, which is slated to open in 2021.

Initially announced in 2017, the project was put on the back burner when Pennsylvania expanded gambling in the state to include mini-casinos. The Rivers also completed several interior upgrades and launched a sports book before officials returned their attention to the hotel.

“The time is right,” Greg Carlin, CEO of Rush Street Gaming and Rivers Casino Pittsburgh, said in a statement. “Statewide gaming expansion changed our schedule, but never our intentions. Rush Street always envisioned a hotel for Rivers to create a full-service destination on the North Shore. We see it as a natural evolution.”

The Landing Hotel Pittsburgh will add about 128 new hotel and casino jobs, along with 1,400 construction jobs..This will be the second Landing Hotel; the first opened in Schenectady, New York, in 2017 as part of Rivers Casino and Resort’s complex at Mohawk Harbor.