Unions representing about 1,200 workers at the Stratosphere hotel-casino reached a tentative labor contract with management over the weekend and plan to hold a vote on the deal Saturday.
The agreement involving Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Bartenders Union Local 165 is the latest in a series of contract agreements reached with Las Vegas Strip [...]
The man building the Ocean Club condominium on Highway 90 sees nothing wrong with a casino linked to his condo towers. Drake Leddy met with Brad Kessie Friday afternoon and responded to a story Brad aired Monday. That story reported that Ocean Club was in the process of gaining approval for its own onsite casino, [...]
Windjammer Condominium owners are free to sell their shares of one of the choicest parcels of waterfront property on the Biloxi strip, between the Beau Rivage and Hard Rock casinos.
Harrison County Chancery Judge Jim Persons ruled May 15 the property owners’ association is authorized to sell the 1.5-acre site to California developer Wilton-Henson Associates LLC, [...]
Disgraced former Providence mayor Vincent “Buddy” Cianci , long known for his panache and flamboyance, plans to make his return to public life in similar fashion: When he gets out of federal prison next week, a front office job at the ultra swank Fifteen Beacon hotel awaits.
Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian already owns a controlling 56 percent [...]
Media and gaming giant Publishing and Broadcasting has made its first foray into the United States casino market, buying a US$250 million ($343 million) stake in a Las Vegas resort.
PBL said yesterday that it would buy a 19.6 per cent interest in Fontainebleau Resorts, the developer of a major new casino and resort property on [...]
Crews cleaning up the former Sands Casino Hotel found more than $17,000 that fell under or around slot machines over the past 30 years.
The casino in Atlantic City was closed last November and will be torn down later this year to make way for a new gambling hall.
So when workers began removing the two-thousand,350 slot [...]
All that’s left of the Stardust now is dust. The once-glitzy casino on the Las Vegas Strip known for its bargain rooms, friendly service and mobbed-up past was imploded early Tuesday morning in a hail of fireworks.
The implosion is to pave the way for Boyd Gaming’s $4.4 billion mega-resort complex, Echelon. Hundreds of guests partied [...]
A five-star hotel under the franchised Marriott Hotels brand could soon be established in Kingston, George-town, in direct competition with the 250-room Buddy’s International Hotel and Resort and the well-established Le Meridien Pegasus.
This newspaper understands that a consortium of private developers, which includes foreign investors, has expressed interest and has begun groundwork for the construction [...]
Nina R. Eldred, former vice president and assistant general counsel for Marriott International and The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, has joined Holland & Knight’s Global Hospitality and Resort Team as a senior counsel in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office.
Eldred is recognized as one of the leading hospitality lawyers representing hotel owners and operators in the acquisition, [...]
U.S. hoteliers and casino operators have set their sights on expanding overseas, particularly in Asia, but opinions differ on which sectors present the least economic and political risk.
Hilton Hotels Corp. is targeting India and China as it reaches further outside the United States, following the acquisition last year of its international namesake.
“The international business is [...]
Casino Data Imaging (CDI), the leading provider of data visualization and report writing analysis tools to the Gaming Industry, announced Morongo Casino, Resort and Spa (website: www.morongocasinoresort.com) have licensed CDI’s CasinoCAD© v4 business intelligence program.
“After studying several analysis solutions for our casino, CasinoCAD© was the tool of choice for our needs,” said Joe Basara, Morongo [...]
Residents of Long Beach will be able to express their views on proposed zoning regulations for casinos, condominiums and educational districts at a March 6 public hearing.
The proposed regulations were forwarded to the mayor and Board of Aldermen by the city’s Planning Commission. The commission’s recom- mendations are limited to setting up legal definitions and [...]
