Harrah’s Hoosier Park Racing & Casino made it official Thursday, holding a formal groundbreaking ceremony for a planned $39 million expansion to the facility’s gaming floor and declaring the project would make the property “one of the best entertainment venues in the state of Indiana.”

The project, which will add an estimated 30,000 square feet to the northwest end of the casino, will allow the addition of 150 new slot machines and 16 table games, as well as other amenities, according to Trent McIntosh, senior vice president and general manager at Hoosier Park.

“It’s been a long time coming,” McIntosh said. “We planned this project after the legislative session in 2019, where we were allowed to bring table games onto the property. At that point, we knew there was going to be a likely additional investment here…that would expand the gaming footprint.”