{"id":17107,"date":"2015-10-28T11:53:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T19:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=17107"},"modified":"2022-05-04T06:01:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T14:01:29","slug":"harrahs-auction-scrapped-airport-casino-nixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/harrahs-auction-scrapped-airport-casino-nixed\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrah’s auction scrapped; Airport casino nixed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost nobody wants the defunct remnants of Harrah’s Tunica Casino<\/strong>. Owner Caesars Entertainment<\/strong> has scratched a planned auction of the property<\/a> because nobody except stalking horse TJM
\n\"HarrahsTunicaExterior\"<\/a><\/strong>Properties<\/strong> has shown an interest in the building. TJM specializes in senior-living facilities. Is Tunica<\/strong> about to become the retirement capital of the South? I doubt even TJM thinks that, as it only offering $3 million for Harrah’s Tunica, barely paring so much as a hangnail off Caesars’ debt burden.<\/p>\n

* Take Windsor Locks<\/strong> out of the running for a third Connecticut<\/strong> tribal casino. In a party-line vote, city selectmen nixed a plan to put a casino at Bradley International Airport<\/strong>. “We just lost an opportunity for job creation and tax revenue for the town of Windsor Locks and the state of Connecticut,” lamented dissenter Steven N. Wawruck<\/strong> (D), after a hotly debated town meeting. Rep. Peggy Sayers<\/strong> (D), meanwhile, raised the prospect of circumventing the host-community vote by creating a back-door approval process in the Legislature. That’s a tall order, what with RFPs due by Nov. 6 and a Dec. 15 decision promised by Foxwoods Resort Casino<\/strong> and Mohegan Sun<\/strong>. Still in the running are East Hartford<\/strong>, Enfield<\/strong>, Hartford<\/strong> and East Windsor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

* Despite the Florida<\/strong> Legislature’s inefficacy at expanding the state’s casino industry, anti-gambling activist John Sowinski<\/strong> isn’t taking any chances. He’s created an Astroturf movement, Voters in Charge<\/strong>, which would reserve the power to authorize new casinos and forms of gambling solely to citizen initiatives. Extending an olive branch to the Seminole Tribe<\/strong>, Sowinski said it was not his desire to \u201climit the ability of the state or Native American tribes to negotiate gaming compacts [for] casino gambling on tribal lands, or to affect any existing gambling on tribal lands.\u201d<\/p>\n

* Scarlet Pearl Casino<\/strong> is still two months away from opening in D’Iberville<\/strong>, Mississippi<\/strong>, but city officials are already merrily <\/a>
\nspending the $1.3 million<\/a> the casino is expected to generate for the \"Scarlet<\/a>city. Palm trees have been planted along the I-10\/I-110 interchange and\u00a0“We gave our employees a good pay raise,” City Councilman Henry Toncrey<\/strong> said. Rainy-day expenditures including the purchase of a trio of fire trucks, including “a platform ladder truck that would be needed to fight a fire at the casino tower,” according to the Biloxi Sun-Herald<\/em>. Slightly under a million dollars remains unspent, and will be dedicated to public-safety and educational budgets. By comparison, what do gaming opponents have to show for themselves?<\/p>\n

* Scientific Games<\/strong>‘ Roger Snow<\/strong> is taking a contrarian position in a Vegas Inc<\/strong>. op-ed, arguing that the casino industry has already become too fixated on millennials<\/a>, and that you could get blotto fast
\n\"Scientific-Games\"<\/a>if you took a drink every time the word “millennials” drops from a gaming executive’s lips. Although he calls millennials “the most knowledgeable generation when it comes to gambling,” he predicts that “the only gambling [they] will be doing on their iPhones in the foreseeable future will be swiping right on Tinder<\/strong>.” That’s a bold, if risky, wager to make, even though it does look more and more like the younger generation will not follow the Baby Boomers’ footsteps in filling the ranks of bread-and-butter casino players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost nobody wants the defunct remnants of Harrah’s Tunica Casino. Owner Caesars Entertainment has scratched a planned auction of the property because nobody except stalking horse TJM Properties has shown an interest in the building. TJM specializes in senior-living facilities. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,166,7,53,35,167,33,160,200,31,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31123,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17107\/revisions\/31123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}