BILOXI - Boomtown Biloxi said today that it will re-open June 29, ahead of schedule, with a new interior and familiar 350-seat buffet featuring seafood favorites and bakery.
Boomtown Biloxi, owned by Penn National Gaming Inc., has been closed since Hurricane Katrina.
The casino will have approximately 1,000 new slot machines and 22 table games. Many of [...]
Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc. will develop a casino on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, the first expansion outside Atlantic City of the casino company founded by Donald Trump since it emerged from bankruptcy a year ago.
The 40-acre project in Hancock County, Miss., will be a joint venture with Diamondhead Casino Corp., which owns a tract of [...]
By Marty Schladen
The Daily News
BILOXI, MISS. — Biloxi’s recovery from Katrina will be slow, but unlike some other communities, it’s undeniable. The reason can be summed up in a word: casinos.
In fact, thousands of traveling workers are staying in the 5,000 hotel rooms now operated by Biloxi casinos as they rebuild the Gulf Coast. [...]
Chase Bradford remembers the buzz. The human resources employee was inside Hard Rock Biloxi when nostalgic music momentos were being hung around the resort.
“It was perfect. It was ready to be opened,” she said nine months later.
And then, on the eve of Hard Rock’s unveiling, the unthinkable happened.
“Nobody got to see it,” project manager Karl [...]
GULFPORT, Miss. AirTran has announced it will resume nonstop service to two Florida destinations from Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport in the next three months.
AirTran’s daily flights to Tampa, Florida, will resume on July sixth. Flights to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, will begin August 29th, the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.That will put the airline at exactly its [...]