Gaming Updates

  • The MASHANTUCKET PEQUOT TRIBAL NATION and MGM MIRAGE have formed a strategic alliance. MGM will consult with MPTN in the development of the $700 million hotel and casino resort under construction at Foxwoods in Mashantucket, Conn., scheduled to open in 2008, and on development of other projects.

  • Edge Group, a gaming, development and management company, is developing the W LAS VEGAS HOTEL, CASINO & RESIDENCES on 24.5 acres just east of the Strip, in partnership with Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide.

  • SOUTH COAST HOTEL & CASINO, Las Vegas, debuted late last year, offering 1,350 guest rooms and 54 suites. The property is five minutes from McCarran International Airport. South Coast has an equestrian complex and 150,000 square feet of convention, exhibit, and banquet space.

  • GREEN VALLEY RANCH RESORT, Las Vegas, is completing a $110 million expansion. The hotel offers 490 guest rooms, including more than 80 suites. The project added 14,000 square feet of meeting and convention space, bringing the total to 79,000 square feet in 37 meeting rooms, and a 500-seat entertainment venue. The new lounge and additional gaming facilities are expected to be finished in spring 2007. The resort also offers a 30,000-square-foot spa. The expansion is one of four at Station Casinos — owned properties. Other projects are at FIESTA HENDERSON, SANTA FE STATION, and RED ROCK CASINO, RESORT AND SPA, and are scheduled to be completed between late 2006 and mid-2007.

  • In Albuquerque, N.M., SANDIA RESORT & CASINO opened last year with 228 guest rooms and suites and 50,000 square feet of meeting space, including a 28,000-square-foot ballroom and six breakout rooms totaling 5,700 square feet. Also on-site: an 18-hole championship golf course designed by Scott Miller and a 12,000-square-foot spa.

  • The 2,000-room BORGATA HOTEL CASINO AND SPA, Atlantic City, N.J., completed a $200 million expansion that features dining by Bobby Flay, Wolfgang Puck, and Michael Mina, as well as 36,120 square feet of casino space. Borgata opened in 2003 as the city's first new resort in 13 years, and is undergoing a $525 million, two-phase development. A second hotel, The Water Club at Borgata, is scheduled to debut in late 2007.

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