The track opened its casino, Dover Downs Slots, on December 29, 1995, following the enactment the previous year of a law allowing slot machines at Delaware's horse tracks. The horse track and the speedway opened together in 1969. Steelman Partners were the original architects and interior designers when it was constructed in 1995.
Primary features of Bally's Dover include a 500-room hotel, dining options, over 2,700 slot machines, 40 table games, and the Rollins Center, an 18,000-square-foot (1,700 m 2) multipurpose ballroom which features entertainment as well as hosting business conferences, conventions and banquets. The complex is owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Bally's Corporation, excluding the motor racing circuit, which is owned by Speedway Motorsports. 625-mile (1.006 km) harness horse racing track, which is surrounded by Dover Motor Speedway, a 1-mile (1.6 km) concrete track used for NASCAR motor racing events. The horse track is located within Dover Motor Speedway and the hotel and casino is the large building to the left of the track.ģ9☁1′21″N 75☃1′58″W / 39.189201°N 75.532675°W / 39.189201 -75.532675īally's Dover Casino Resort, formerly Dover Downs, is a hotel, casino, and racetrack complex in Dover, Delaware.
