Information from Mayor A.J. Holloway’s State of the City address:
Hurricane debris removal: 2.8 million cubic yards (enough to cover a football field and stand 133 stories high).
School enrollment: 22 percent less than pre-Katrina level of 6,100 students.
Casino hotel rooms: nearly 70 percent back up and running.
All hotel rooms: 55 percent back [...]
MISSISSIPPI – 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 [...]
Ever heard of Italian soul food?
I’m always on the lookout for great, local barbecue joints, but I can’t resist talking about the Italian restaurant I ate at here in Biloxi the other night.
It’s called Bragozzo, and it’s the focus of the Isle of Capri Casino’s renaissance from mid-tier casino to running with the big dogs.
The [...]
Boomtown booms, Hollywood hiccups
By TOM WILEMON
BILOXI - There’s a tale of two casinos in the fourth-quarter earnings report from Penn National Gaming.
The casino operator’s Biloxi property Boomtown is prospering, but its Hollywood Casino in Bay St. Louis is struggling.
Peter Carlino, the chief executive of Penn National Gaming, told stock analysts in an earnings conference call [...]
BILOXI - Isle of Capri Casinos Inc. has bought the Point Cadet property where Landry’s Restaurants had proposed putting a Golden Nugget Casino.
The purchase includes 5.64 acres that is almost a city block and another parcel that that is 30,000 square feet.
“Basically that property is a strategic fit as we continue to investigate master plan [...]