Get directions, reviews and information for Saracen Casino Resort in Pine Bluff, AR. Saracen Casino Resort 3512 Market St Pine Bluff AR 71601. 5 Reviews (870) 686-9001 Website. Menu & Reservations Make Reservations. Order Online Tickets Tickets See Availability Directions. Saracen Casino Annex is located Pine Bluff, Arkansas, adjacent to the Saracen Q Store, formerly the site of Southern Edge Truck Stop, and across the street from the 80,000 sq ft casino Saracen Casino Resort, the Saracen Casino Resort will be open from 9AM to 2AM. The attached 13-floor, 300-room hotel will be open in Phase II of development.

One of the largest tourism investments in Arkansas opened its doors to a select few Thursday night. The Saracen Casino Resort has been under construction since August 2019. It will open to the public Tuesday, October 20.

“You’re going to start seeing things evolve around Pine Bluff,” Jefferson County Judge Gerald Robinson said as he played a game of craps.

“We’re building three new buildings, the new health department, a new veterans service building and were also building a new coroner’s office and that’s going to be possible because of these revenues that we're receiving from the casino,” Robinson said.

• PINE BLUFF - In a surprise 'soft' opening Friday, Saracen Casino Annex opened for business at 6 p.m., four days ahead of a planned grand opening scheduled for Tuesday morning.
• Arguably, the biggest news in 2020 for Pine Bluff was the mid-October opening of the Saracen Casino Resort.

The constitutional amendment added by Arkansas voters says that Jefferson County will get 8% of the gaming revenue and the city of Pine Bluff will get 19.5% of the revenue.

“I think this money is going to help us give those increases to our first responders that we’ve been looking to for so many years so we can have that level of retention that we need,” Pine Bluff Mayor Shirley Washington said. She said the city will bring in more infrastructure and businesses as the tax base goes up from the casino.

“We’re not bringing in a lot of industry so we must make pine bluff that destination city,” Washington said.

She said she hopes it will decrease crime by giving people jobs and allowing them to afford nicer homes.

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“I’ve done some research where casinos have gone into other cities and most of them have said the crime that they had was there before the casinos came,” Washington said. “We’ve seen people go overnight to a 25,000 job to 68,000.”

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The casino opens to the public in the middle of a pandemic.

“The department of health has looked over the guidelines for operation and as long as those are complied with, we are reducing the risk but anytime you get out in an environment where there are people you are exposing yourself,” Governor Asa Hutchinson said.

“They’ve got to make their own decision,” Gov. Hutchinson said about Arkansans going to a casino in the middle of a pandemic. “Obviously if you are a vulnerable age group you need to think carefully about it and you need to look at what are the safety revision in place.”

The casino features 2,300 games and 7 restaurants.

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A breakdown of revenue from gaming based on the constitutional amendment:

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• 13% on the first $150 million in net gaming revenue
• 20% on gaming revenue above $150 million
• 55% goes to the state general fund
• 17.5% to state Racing Commission earmarked for horse and dog racing purses
• 19.5% to the City of Pine Bluff
• 8% to Jefferson County