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Major
damage halts early signs of hope for
Beau Rivage
October 10
Online casino players have been
reading many articles regarding the
recovery efforts to storm-stricken
Mississippi casinos. Originally
after Katrina past through the Gulf
Coast pummeling the area's 13
casinos, reports were saying that
the Beau Rivage was probably the
least damaged casino in the area.
Well, the $800 million massive
casino resort in Biloxi is worse for
wear than first imagined.
The resort's
Las Vegas-based parent company, MGM
Mirage Inc., now expects the Beau
Rivage will be the single-biggest
loss of any of the casinos in the
area. For sure, the bigger the
casino, the more money it could cost
to fix. More square footage means
that more could go wrong.
R epresentatives
estimate that repairing the casino
resort, that contains over 1,700 hotel
rooms, might take hundreds of millions
of dollars once complete. What's more,
the project will take over a year. This
comes as a blow to the nearly 3,500
casino employees that worked there.
Even thought the casino resort was
constructed to handle the wind speeds
equaling those of a category 5 storm,
the main damage is located inside the
resort buildings.
The storm surge is what appears to be
the culprit for the extensive damage. It
looks as thought (from the outside) that
the resort is in better condition. The
flood damage ravaged the interior of the
Beau Rivage. We will keep our online
casino fans posted on the recovery
efforts.
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