After several hurdles - ranging from regulatory to moral issues - the construction of Entertainment City, touted as the Philippines' Las Vegas version, is finally set to start by early next year. The local government of Paranaque recently gave its official endorsement for the project's tourism ecozone status, the last in its long list of pre-construction requirements. The city hall resolution provides tax incentives and real property tax postponement to investors

Construction at both the Seneca Allegany Casino in Salamanca and Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino in Buffalo will cease, report Seneca Gaming Corp. officials Wednesday. Corporation officials report the decision to cease construction was made ''in light of various factors'' including ''challenging economic and capital market conditions, greater demands on the company's available cash and increased competition and construction costs.''

Faced with uncertainty about the future of the economy, Harrah's announced last month that it has slowed construction on the USD 700 Margaritaville Casino and Resort on the beach in east Biloxi. MGM Mirage, parent company of the nearby Beau Rivage, said earlier this spring it had laid off 100 people between the Biloxi and Tunica County properties. As consumers' expendable income shrinks with the rising cost of food and gas...

Hammond, Indiana (AP) - An enclosed walkway being attached to a floating casino on Lake Michigan slipped Tuesday as it was being attached, sending seven construction workers into the water, authorities said. After the workers fell, nine other workers jumped into the water to help them, including two men who were briefly trapped inside the fallen walkway, said Kevin Margraf, chief fire inspector for the Hammond Fire Department.

Biloxi -- Harrah's Entertainment says it's not stopping work on the Margaritaville Casino project, just slowing it down. Rumors swirling around Biloxi had placed a cloud over the massive construction work adjacent to the Grand Casino Biloxi. "Over the next few weeks, residents of Biloxi will notice less activity and fewer workers at the Margaritaville work site," said Marybel Batjer, vice president of communications, in an e-mailed statement.

Local council of Coyhaique, as it has been performed by CORE, approved the construction and operation of a casino in Coyhaique, before the Casino Superintendence. Both processes are necessary so SCJ may approve the investments interested in the construction of a casino. Both processes are necessary so finally SCJ may approve the investments interested in the construction of a casino, which also considers other versions of singular relevance for the council, pointed Mayor David Sandoval Plaza.

Construction of the planned Pittsburgh slots casino has been suspended for about two weeks until a contractor is paid the USD 10 million he is owed, a spokesman for the casino developer said. But Bob Oltmanns, spokesman for Majestic Star Casino developer Don Barden, said Tuesday that USD 120 million in funding for the casino has been secured from Walton Street Capital LLC.

A bankruptcy judge is to decide this morning whether construction of Greektown's permanent hotel and casino will continue. The project's general contractor and about 90 subcontractors have threatened to stop work and some have already walked off the job citing nonpayment from as far back as February. On Tuesday, attorneys for Greektown Casino asked U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Walter Shapero to immediately approve a USD 44-million loan to pay contractors.

Hammond, Indiana (AP) - Construction of a new USD 485 million Horseshoe Casino in Hammond is ahead of schedule and is expected to open in late summer instead of early fall. Casino officials say their full-time payroll is expected to jump from around 2,300 employees to 2,700 when the new facility opens. The Horseshoe project includes new gaming rooms, restaurants and a theater designed to draw Las Vegas-style entertainment.

The county's building division recently gave Harrah’s Entertainment another month to correct substandard or undocumented remodeling at its Strip property, Harrah’s Las Vegas. It is customary for the county to extend deadlines when property owners are making progress at fixing code violations but can’t comply in 30 days, a county spokeswoman said.

According to an information released by Grupo Boldt authorities, it will be held the first casino opening in the province of Santa Fe, when Melincué gambling venue will be officially inaugurated today (Friday, 28) by Governor Jorge Obeid. Obeid confirmed that the facilities will be inaugurated on September 28th, a long time before the deadline set during the call for the tender process.

Unlike local civil initiatives, the mayors of western Slovenia are in favour of a EUR 750 mln gaming resort that US company Harrah's Entertainment plans to build there with its local partner Hit, provided certain issues they deem vital are tackled, Slovene Press Agency reports. Mayor of Sempeter-Vrtojba Dragan Valencic, who presented positions of the local community, added though that the meeting with Harrah's senior executive Jan Jones did not yield any specific new information on the project.