Casino-Hotel Facility Features Complex Comfort System
SHREVEPORT, La. - Imagine the challenges involved in designing a unified comfort system for a 25-floor super-deluxe hotel with 606 rooms connected to an enormous floating casino boat and a temporary theater with seating for 1,350. Add to that a growing attached luxury retail area and four restaurants plus an employee cafeteria. Now locate the facility in Bossier City, La., with an annual average of 2,538 cooling degree-days and chronically high summer humidity. Allow for expansion of at least another 300 hotel rooms.
This was the daunting challenge facing the owners of the Horseshoe Casino and Tower as they began developing the casino and recreational complex near Shreveport in 1994. Riverboat gambling is the centerpiece of this facility, but it also has extensive convention facilities and a growing retail center. Both of these are on-shore and connected to the casino boat. In addition, the facility has a five-story parking structure that can accommodate 1,800 vehicles as well as surface parking for another 1,000 vehicles. The casino and hotel facility today provides jobs for 2,840 area residents.