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Florida & Gulf Coast  + South Florida  + Hospitality  |  October 12, 2026
The Big Easy Casino
Mike Boyd
By: Mike Boyd

Hallandale Beach Casino to Undergo Revamp

Developer Jeffrey Soffer plans to rebuild the Big Easy Casino in Hallandale Beach and replace it with a 165,381-square-foot new casino, plus a four-story parking garage. The South Florida Business Journal reports the casino would include slot machines, a card room, a smoking lounge for slots players, a central bar, a live music venue, a steakhouse, and a sports restaurant. The restaurant space would total 34,344 square feet, while the bars would total 11,205 square feet. There would also be 9,755 square feet of administrative offices.

The Big Easy Casino site, at 831 N. Federal Highway, spans 23.8 acres. The current casino totals 262,931 square feet and was built in 1963.

Soffer is the head of Aventura-based Fontainebleau Development, which owns the Fontainebleau resorts in Miami Beach and Las Vegas, acquired the casino property for $12.5 million in 2018.

Las Vegas-based Steelman Partners is the architect of the project.

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Mike covers our Texas and Phoenix/Southwest regions. He is a veteran news reporter who spent 10 years in radio and television news, mostly in Tucson, Arizona. Following his career in the media, he spent ten years as a communications executive for a publicly traded development company. Mike is married with three boys and three Huskies.
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