Modern LED Fixtures adorn Southland Casino in West Memphis, Arkansas
As the Mid-South’s premier destination for gaming, racing and dining, the Southland Casino Complex and Hotel in West Memphis is completing a major expansion with beautiful lighting and upscale touches, all coming together for a brand new casino experience. The facility includes a 113,000 square foot casino complex featuring over 2,400 slot machines from the newest games to classics, as well as 60 live table games, sports betting and a new covered parking garage with over 1,400 spaces. Restaurants and lounges include the Sports Bar & Grill, Ignite Steakhouse, The Fry House and The Grind coffee chop, The Chairman’s Bar and the Ignite Steakhouse Bar. A gleaming, blue-glass high-rise hotel will feature 300 rooms, including more than 60 suites and 12 penthouse suites. Stunning Modern LED fixtures are designed with Integral LEDs to provide beautiful illumination, energy efficient and a long rated life, and installed throughout the facility.
As guests enter the casino, they are greeted with a massive 36-foot-long ceiling fixture featuring linear strips of stunning glass pretzels suspended from a stainless steel rectangular canopy. Throughout the facility, you will find a variety of cool curvaceous styled LED pendants ranging from 18 inches to the expansive 96-inch sizes. The dome-shaped shades offer metallic Idalight shades with richly appointed exterior and matching interior finishes that result in a warm, burnished glow. All are featured in the American manufactured, American designed, handcrafted Contemporary Lighting Collection.
In the hotel, you will find uniquely styled Paper Meringue ceiling fixtures and Linen shaded oblong luminaires, enhanced with Statuario Idalight bottom diffusers, on the ceiling in the corridors. Connecting the casino to the garage is an elegant 48-inch crystal lighting chandelier with 18 faux candlelights crowned with elegant White fabric shades.
Designed by SOSHNY Architects, Nory Hazaveh, Gephart Electric and Drew Herman.
Southland History
At its opening in the mid-1950s, Southland Casino Racing was the only gambling venue in the Mid-South, drawing thousands of visitors from surrounding areas. The track offered pari-mutuel betting, also known as pool betting, where wagers are placed against other bettors and a pool is shared among winners.
Originally owned by the Upton family and other individuals, Southland was purchased by Delaware North Companies, Inc. of Buffalo, New York, in the early 1970s. Southland was the premier greyhound race track in the country at its highest point, with up to 20,000 guests from the 1960s through the 80s, annual wagers on greyhound races frequently exceeding $200 million, while employing over 600 people.
Southland has contributed more than $18 million to public agencies and private, non-profit organizations including the Boys and Girls Club, American Cancer Society, Muscular Dystrophy Association, American Legion, and American Heart Association, among others. In addition, Southland is one of the only greyhound race tracks in the country with an adoption center located on the grounds, caring for the dogs from out of the gate to their forever homes.