Once complete and fully operational, WarHorse Casino Omaha would include 1,200 gaming machines, live and simulcast horse racing, gaming tables and live entertainment, plus bars, a food hall and a coffee shop, according to plans previously made public. McNally explains that, ten months after construction begins, a transitional facility will be open with gaming machines for usage until the entire WarHorse facility is completed, a process set to take about two years from the day of the groundbreaking. The company is set to invest about $200 million to that end. To be developed by WarHorse Gaming, LLC, a division of Ho-Chunk Inc, WarHorse Casino Omaha will see the introduction of casino gaming at the existing Horsemen's Park racing track in the city. “ It’s going to be a massive undertaking, there will be a hotel in Lincoln, the facility in Omaha will look much different than it looks now but I think Nebraskans will be very, very thrilled with the end result, and we can’t wait for them to open,” Lynne McNally with Nebraska Horsemen’s told WOWT. the economic development arm of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska- for the development of casinos in the state, said they are hoping to break ground on an Omaha casino by late spring.
Officials of the Nebraska Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association (HBPA), which are partnering with Ho-Chunk, Inc.
