Its another first for the Isle of Capri. Mississippi’s first dockside casino is about to be its first on shore casino. Katrina’s devastation forced the Isle to transform its hotel’s brand new meeting rooms into a glitzy new, land based casino.
Sandy Holmes just got a tour of her new work environment. “It’s going to give [...]
By TOM WILEMON
SUN HERALD
BILOXI - Isle of Capri Casinos Inc. would put a new 2,500-room hotel casino on the north side of U.S. 90 that would be more than three times the size of its existing resort if the city leases the company land.
Tim Hinkley, president of the Isle, discussed the company’s intentions this week. [...]
Here is a very positive article about the casinos on the Coast and in Biloxi. Good read!
By Gary Rivlin The New York Times
BILOXI, Mississippi Anyone visiting this city in the days after Hurricane Katrina might reasonably have concluded that it would be a long while before slot machines were again ringing their incessant chimes. The [...]
Price of property was sticking point
By TOM WILEMON
tewilemon@sunherald.com
BILOXI - The Biloxi City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to reject an offer from Landry’s Restaurants Inc. to lease waterfront property for a Golden Nugget Casino and boardwalk amusement park.
The price of the property was the sticking point on the proposed $400 million to $500 million development. It [...]
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — A $400 million casino project, the first major investment for the Coast since Hurricane Katrina, could fall through because Biloxi and the developer have not agreed on a price for city-owned waterfront.
Thirteen days after Landry’s Restaurants presented plans to the city on Nov. 10 and asked that the city “reply without [...]