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Issue
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March
28 - April 3, 2001
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This Issue Gaming
News Mega-Casino Hopes to Open in the Catskills Australia
Moves to
Ban New London Target for Connecticut's First Urban Casino Hong Kong's Bookie Won't Bet on Change Gambling Fever Spreads to Cell Phones Columns Show Time
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New California Casino to Open in April
The $90 million Mediterranean-style casino will open on the edge of Rancho Mirage, CA, and compete with three other Indian casinos in a 45-mile stretch between Banning and Coachella in the Riverside County desert. At the Agua Caliente Casino, tall brass doors at the front entrance will open into an atrium of rushing waterfalls and palm trees that look real. Gamblers can valet-park or pull into a four-level parking structure for 1,250 cars and use a covered walkway to protect against 120-degree summer days. High rollers can pull handles on $ 25 slots. Gaming tables, electronic roulette and rows of Las Vegas-style slots fill the casino floor, divided into smoking and non-smoking areas. Restaurants will include a prime steakhouse, a New York deli and casual "eclectic" dining. The casino will feature the popular buffet traditionally found in larger Las Vegas venues, only this one will have four food stations -- American, Chinese, Italian and Mexican -- plus a salad and dessert bar. A lounge will offer live entertainment and dancing, and a 1,000-seat auditorium will double as a bingo/concert hall for acts such as Earth, Wind & Fire and country singer Wynonna. Outside, the landscaping will include more waterfalls, more than 50 newly planted palms and hundreds of cacti. If the outside reminds gamblers of The Mirage in Las Vegas, it's because the casino had the same landscape architect, said Michael Lombardi, who worked as a consultant to the Agua Calientes on the bingo portion of the new casino. The new casino will employ 830 people, bringing the tribe's work force to 1,500. These also include jobs at the tribe's Spa Hotel and Casino in downtown Palm Springs, CA. |
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RIVERSIDE,
CA - It will have a mega-buffet, just like the big boys in Las Vegas.
It's got gold-plated ceramic tiles and a thousand one-armed bandits.
But gamblers will be the final judge once the Agua Caliente Casino
opens its polished brass doors in early April. 