Starcasino opened in November, 2011 in the ground floor of a Art Nouveau apartment house whose original facade relief has been largely flattened on account of various renovations. The residential portion of the building is almost fully occupied. The shop spaces at street level are however empty, as is typical of the area. The casino is one of the newest businesses in Große Steinstraße. The space had been used as an amusement arcade since 1990. After being unoccupied for a period, the current owner undertook complicated renovation work before opening the Starcasino.

Hotel Weltfrieden was originally opened in 1905 by the hotel owner Rudolf Dietrich under the name Metropol-Hotel. In 1924, Dietrich converted the building and renamed it Gaststätte Haus Dietrich. In the wake of the financial crisis he sold it in 1931 to the brewery Eger, who managed it up to 1941 under the name Egerer Hof. In 1952 the hotel was reopened as Hotel Weltfrieden. It was the first HO Hotel (HO – GDR’s centralised trade cooperation) in Halle. In 1974/75 the buildings in Große Steinstraße 63/65 were incorporated into the business.

The Vorderhaus Schauburg was built in 1953 by the agriculturalist Carl Friedrich Rosch. In 1888 the house acquired a new use as a restaurant through the publican Wilhelm Köhler who began operations in the Gasthof zum alten Schwan. This changed at the end of the 19^th century. From 1897 on, the Vorderhaus Schauburg served both as sport hotel and restaurant for the velodrome which had been built at the same time in the hall of what was later to become the Schauburg. The house was bought by the stone mason and sculptor Paul Gellert in 1918.