Showboat A/C Closes
It's Bowling Center
- ATLANTIC CITY, NJ -- Showboat
has closed its 60-lane bowling center and will begin gutting
it to make room for two restaurants.
The
decision, which new General Manager Tom O'Donnel said
was rather easy, closes a unique chapter in the city's
23-year casino history.
Opened
in 1987, the then-named Showboat
Hotel, Casino & Bowling Center was host for the 1988
U.S. Open and three PBA Tour events. The casino hired
Hall of Fame bowler Dick Weber as its celebrity host and
formed a touring team called the Showboat Girls.
What
worked in Las Vegas, however, was soon a flop in Atlantic
City. The bowling center stayed open for years only because
it was there. The 800-room Showboat,
stuck in a no-growth mode the last five years, is also
considering a hotel expansion of perhaps 500 rooms to
help stem its market-share losses.
London Club International
Up For Sale
- United Kingdom casino operator London Clubs International
is up for sale after being hit by its disastrous investment
in the Las Vegas Aladdin gaming complex.
The
company has seen it value plummet more than 60% since
last year.
"The
trouble is that Aladdin remains a poisoned pill. Things
are bad there now but a US economic slowdown could make
matters worse," said a LCI source who declined to be identified.
The
London Club runs a 35,000-square-foot facility at the
Aladdin Hotel & Casino. It features a 15,000-square-foot
main casino offering baccarat, Pai Gow poker, roulette,
blackjack and premium slot machines.
Mohegan Sun to Donate Bingo Equipment
-
UNCASVILLE, CT -- Mohegan
Sun is donating more than $200,000 worth of bingo
equipment and supplies to local nonprofit groups on a
first-come, first-served basis.
To
date, Mohegan
Sun has donated more than $125,000 worth of equipment,
including eight electronic bingo boards, nine televisions,
thousands of reams of paper and bingo daubbers to the
New London Senior Center, St. John's Church in Uncasville,
the Griswold Senior Center and the Pyramid Shriners in
Milford, Conn.
The
casino is donating approximately nine bingo boards, several
hundred reams of bingo paper and a limited number of small
promotional prizes in order to make way for the spring
2001 opening of its Hall of The Lost Tribes, a 20,000-square-foot
smoke-free casino. Interested nonprofit groups can contact
Bruce Eichelberg of Mohegan
Sun at (860)367-0470.