The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Bristol will open its approximately $515 million permanent facility on Nov. 14, with country music star Blake Shelton making an appearance at the ceremony, its development team announced Wednesday.
The temporary Bristol Casino: Future Home of Hard Rock opened July 8, 2022, making it Virginia’s first operating casino. Since then, two other casinos in Danville and Portsmouth have opened.
The development team — a joint venture between Hard Rock, Par Ventures President Clyde Stacy and The United Co. Chairman Jim McGlothlin — previously pushed back the opening of the permanent casino, which had been expected in July, to an unspecified time in “late fall,” in favor of opening the full casino resort.
