{"id":952,"date":"2008-02-11T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2008\/2\/11\/Pinnacle-wins-in-Baton-Rouge"},"modified":"2018-09-16T13:02:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T21:02:10","slug":"pinnacle-wins-in-baton-rouge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/pinnacle-wins-in-baton-rouge\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinnacle wins in Baton Rouge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Backed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinecasinoadvisory.com\/casino-news\/land\/baton-rouge-okays-casino-1461.htm\" class=\"broken_link\">56% of local voters<\/a>, <b>Pinnacle Entertainment <\/b>has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnkinc.com\/press_room\" class=\"broken_link\">received the green light<\/a> for its &#8220;Riviere&#8221; project in <b>East Baton Rouge<\/b>. No doubt this means some long faces at <b>Penn National<\/b> and <b>Columbia Sussex<\/b>, both of which mounted a full-bore effort aimed at keeping Pinnacle out. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/newsflash\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-37\/1202618051241720.xml&amp;storylist=louisian\" class=\"broken_link\">voters weren&#8217;t swayed<\/a>. Pinnacle&#8217;s promise to bear the cost of infrastructure burdens surely didn&#8217;t hurt, either.<\/p>\n<p>At least one competitor isn&#8217;t taking this lying down. Columbia Sussex is reportedly mulling a plan to yank its <i>Amelia Belle<\/i> (formerly the <i>Belle of New Orleans<\/i>) from Amelia, La., and re-berth it in Baton Rouge, displacing the smaller <i>Belle of Baton Rouge<\/i>. As for what Columbia Sussex would do with its Amelia license, that remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backed by 56% of local voters, Pinnacle Entertainment has received the green light for its &#8220;Riviere&#8221; project in East Baton Rouge. No doubt this means some long faces at Penn National and Columbia Sussex, both of which mounted a full-bore &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/pinnacle-wins-in-baton-rouge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,84,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952"}],"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=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22452,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/22452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}