Castle Hotel in New Hampshire Targeted for Casino Development by Delaware North
Posted on: April 22, 2026, 11:43h.
Last updated on: April 22, 2026, 11:43h.
- Delaware North wants to move its New Hampshire charitable casino
- The Sheraton Nashua, a castle hotel, is targeted for the new casino location
A castle hotel in New Hampshire is being targeted for a casino development in Nashua.
New Hampshire’s gaming market is rapidly expanding after state lawmakers allowed charitable casinos to include slot-like video lottery terminals (VLTs) last year. VLTs operate about five seconds faster than historical horse racing (HHR) machines, which were previously the primary electronic gaming at the state’s 14 charitable properties.
Delaware North has operated the Gate City Casino, a former billiards hall in Nashua, since late 2022. The New York-based gaming and hospitality conglomerate has proposed relocating Gate City from its current location inside an industrial park to the Sheraton Nashua, a 337-room hotel iconic for its castle and medieval European architecture.
Delaware North, which bought Sheraton Nashua in October 2022, has proposed to the city an expansion of the hotel to include a 93,000-square-foot casino and a multistory parking garage. The facilities would be built south of the current hotel near the small pond on the existing surface parking lot.
Hotel to Casino Experience
Delaware North has experience converting hotels into casinos.
Delaware North partnered with Suffolk Off-Track Betting Corporation in 2016 to redevelop a former 227-room hotel on Long Island into a video lottery casino. Jake’s 58 opened inside the former Marriott Islandia in early 2017 with over 1,000 gaming machines and renovated hotel rooms.
In New Hampshire, Delaware North isn’t replacing any part of the Sheraton Nashua but only expanding the hotel to include gaming. Sheraton Nashua recently renovated its guestrooms and suites through a multimillion-dollar investment that Delaware North officials called a “gut job.”
Sheraton Nashua’s Tudor-style exterior facades, including its moat-like gatehouse porte-cochere, remained untouched.
By law, New Hampshire casinos must, each day, designate two charitable beneficiaries. The nonprofits equally split 35% of the day’s gross gaming revenue.
The state receives 31% of the casino revenue, 2.5% is allocated for the New Hampshire Gaming Commission to cover regulatory costs, and 0.25% is directed to the Governor’s Commission on Addiction, Treatment, and Prevention. The casinos retain the remaining 31.25%.
Castle Casinos
If Nashua and state officials approve of the casino relocation, the Gate City Casino at Sheraton Nashua wouldn’t be the only castle casino in the nation.
The most famous castle casino is on the Las Vegas Strip, with MGM Resorts’ Excalibur Hotel & Casino. A less familiar destination where casino gambling is located within a faux castle is the Cliff Castle Casino Hotel, a tribal gaming property located in Camp Verde, AZ.
The Golden Nugget in Atlantic City opened in 1985 as Trump’s Castle, though the property never resembled a castle. Donald Trump named the property as such after receiving copyright threats from Caesars when he considered branding the property Trump Palace, something Caesars argued too closely mimicked Caesars Palace.
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Do we know if this will be fully transformed into an integrated resort?