Casino Middelkerke will be renamed SILT

The Casino of Middelkerke will be a building with a restaurant, party location, hotel and conference room. It is also higher than the old casino, which means that the apartments have to lose a view: “We also communicated that when proposing the project that certain people with an apartment that used to have a frontal sea view, that that is indeed not the case for some people is more,” says Sylvie Vanhoutte, head of communications at Middelkerke.

But she also reassures the residents: “I always compare it a bit with the Eiffel Tower, I think that this site, SILT, will create added value. People with a view of the Eiffel Tower also pay a bit more for their apartment.”

End in sight

The timing is tight. Work started more than a year ago, and the casino should be finished by the end of this year: “They are currently still working on major infrastructure works, the last building layer of the hotel is being made, work is also being done on the sea wall. We plan that the building was fully completed at the end of this year.