Montevideo Mayor, Ricardo Ehrlich, announced the sale of the tender papers for Hotel Casino Carrasco. The aim is to transform Carrasco into a high level tourist attraction, and the construction is about to start in 2009. "After a long procedure, the tender process for Carrasco Hotel Casino has finally opened", pointed Mayor Ehrlich, who announced the tender for Carrasco building. The documents are on sale in the Purchase section of the Montevideo Council (IMM) at a cost of USD 10,000.
Clinton - Area residents eagerly awaiting a glimpse inside Iowa’s first true land-based casino finally got their chance as the Wild Rose Casino & Resort opened its doors to customers Friday for the first time. According to Wild Rose Marketing Manager Maureen Roushar, attendance for the “soft opening” was much larger than anticipated. “This is really exciting,” Roushar said of the packed house.
2007 and the first semester of 2008 have been marked by a “change of attitude” towards online gambling on the part of both the executive and the judiciary. This can be largely explained by the sending of a reasoned opinion by the European Commission to France last June, which put pressure on the one hand on the government to modify its gaming legislation to make it consistent with European law, and on the other hand on courts.
Ritzio International reports an opening of its first gaming club in Serbia. The company has launched a 330 sqm facility featuring 51 gaming machine and entertainment services in the country’s capital Belgrade. Ritzio enters Serbia with its key format of modern accessible middle-size gaming venues. The company intends to develop Vulcan chain of gaming clubs to spread around the country’s urban areas.
The Cordish Company today opened a temporary casino on the grounds of Indiana Downs, about 20 miles southeast of Indianapolis, Ind. Cordish also is part of a group, with the Hard Rock franchise, bidding to operate a state-owned casino at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan., that would be the nation’s fourth Hard Rock resort casino. In Indiana, competing Hoosier Park, about 25 miles northeast of Indianapolis opened its casino on the grounds last Monday.
Indiana’s first fully integrated casino and racetrack opened this morning when the official first dollar slid into one of 2,000 new state-of-the art slot machines at the Las Vegas-style Hoosier Park Racing & Casino in Anderson. Hoosier Park owners and executives, along with community leaders and local citizens, celebrated the opening of the new 92,000-square-foot casino building with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Gran Casino de Castellón opened its doors last week after several months of delay and a controversial location. Finally, the gambling venue was inaugurated in the port of La Plana capital city. Orenes Franco Group has invested 20 million euros on a surface of more than 4,000 sqms. It has two French Roulettes, eight American Roulettes, three Black Jack tables, seven poker tables and a Baccarat one.
or some time, the folks at MGM Mirage have touted the fact that CityCenter – all 18 million square feet of it – will open at once by the end of 2009. While there may be one heck of a grand opening for the USD 9.2 billion city-within-a-city on the Strip, actual opening dates for the various buildings will differ. This week, CityCenter Chief Executive Bobby Baldwin revealed more specifics in an interview with the Sun.
The opening of a GBP 13m showpiece casino built in Leeds has been delayed for at least nine months. London Clubs International took four years to develop a four-storey building at Clarence Dock into a "new generation" Alea casino featuring two restaurants, three bars, a conference centre and 50-seat cinema. Due to open in December last year, its doors have remained closed and now the company says it hopes to open the venue in September.
In France, Budget Minister Eric Woerth has announced that the Government of President Nicolas Sarkozy is looking to open the market to gambling firms from elsewhere in the European Union next year or by the start of 2010. Woerth told French daily newspaper Le Parisien that he expects the government to complete plans this year regarding a test phase in 2009 or 2010 and that private betting providers licensed to operate under French regulations will be subject to the same conditions and tax policies as Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU), the current monopoly betting operator.
A gambling clinic has been opened in Salzburg to treat the city's growing number of gambling addicts. Around 5,000 Salzburg residents are addicts and it affects more and more young people. Until now addicts have been able to find help at the Self-help Group for Anonymous Gamblers and at the Provincial Social Medicine Service but it is hoped that the new clinic will be able to offer more extensive treatment.
This gambling mecca’s tallest building is now attached to a major casino. The new 960-room, 44-story Waterfront Tower debuted yesterday at Harrah’s Marina casino in the Marina District. It is the first among a wave of new casino hotel towers opening this year in Atlantic City. New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine and Harrah’s Entertainment chairman and CEO Gary Loveman participated at the ribbon cutting ceremony.
