{"id":256187,"date":"2026-07-31T09:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256187\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T09:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:08:06","slug":"churchill-downs-puts-presque-isle-downs-casino-up-for-sale-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256187\/","title":{"rendered":"Churchill Downs Puts Presque Isle Downs &#038; Casino Up for Sale | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"PI DOWNS.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1382\" height=\"878\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Churchill Downs is putting <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.presqueisledowns.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Presque Isle Downs &amp; Casino<\/a> up for sale, the company announced on its second quarter earnings call Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Erie News Now was the first to report the potential sale Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The Erie casino, which is located on Perry Highway in Summit Township, is one of nine properties and holdings the company is placing on the market, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ir.churchilldownsincorporated.com\/static-files\/e333894a-51dc-4f5b-974c-a28641a96237\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to a document filed with the SEC on Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They include:<\/p>\n<p>Calder Casino (Florida)<\/p>\n<p>Terre Haute Casino Resort (Indiana)<\/p>\n<p>Hard Rock Hotel &amp; Casino (Iowa)<\/p>\n<p>Oxford Casino Hotel (Maine)<\/p>\n<p>Ocean Downs Casino and Racetrack (Maryland)<\/p>\n<p>Harlow\u2019s Casino Resort and Spa (Mississippi)<\/p>\n<p>Riverwalk Casino Hotel (Mississippi)<\/p>\n<p>del Lago Resort and Casino (New York)<\/p>\n<p>Presque Isle Downs &amp; Casino (Pennsylvania)<\/p>\n<p>Churchill Downs closed on the purchase of Presque Isle Downs from Eldorado Resorts in January 2019 for $178.9 million, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.presqueisledowns.com\/news\/cdi-completes-acquisition-of-pid\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the company announced in a news release at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The casino opened in February 2007. It operates approximately 1,500 slots, more than 30 table games and a sportsbook, plus holds live thoroughbred racing.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no word on how much the casino is being sold for and if a potential buyer has come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Churchill Downs is putting Presque Isle Downs &amp; Casino up for sale, the company announced on its second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,296,139],"class_list":["post-256187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-local","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}