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The main focus of the Horseshoe Southern Indiana complex is a riverboat, a four-story boat that is the largest riverboat in North America. It is also the largest riverboat casino in the world. It cost $50 million dollars to construct. It is 452 feet (138 m) long, 100 feet (30 m) wide, with a total area of 173,200 square feet (16,090 m2). It has four 1,000 horsepower (750 kW) Z-Drives. The smokestacks rise 100 feet (30 m) from the waterline, with eight feet below the waterline. The riverboat has 93,000-square-foot (8,600 m2) of casino space with a maximum capacity of 5,030 "persons" (passengers & crew combined), with 3,600 gaming positions, 2,800 slot machines, and over 140 gaming tables.
In a year 2000 study by the state of Indiana, 51.4% of casino employees are female, 12.9% are minorities, and 42.3% of employees coming from places other than Harrison, Floyd, and Clark County, Indiana. Only 30% of the 4.5 million admissions to the casino were of Indiana residents. There were 68 arrests that year, mostly due to public drunkenness.
Besides the riverboat, Horseshoe Southern Indiana also includes a nature preserve, four restaurants, conference center, hotel, shopping center, and a nearby golf course with an equestrian theme called Chariot Run.
Due to the ownership of Caesars World having changed hands, Caesars Indiana was run by Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Incorporated, and then to Park Place Entertainment Corporation. It is currently owned by Harrah's.
Since the Indiana legislature voted in 2002 to allow casino riverboats to dock permanently, the riverboat no longer leaves the dock.
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