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Vol. 9 • No. 8 • February 28, 2011, Featured Articles, GLOBAL GAMING BUSINESS PODCASTS
GLOBAL GAMING BUSINESS PODCAST: Don Robinson, President, Baha Mar Ltd.
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Don Robinson, the president of Baha Mar Ltd, the company building the multi-billion dollar gaming resort in the Bahamas.
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Don Robinson spent 34 years with the Walt Disney Company, overseeing planning, design and development of many Disney properties. At Baha Mar, he takes the reins of the lead partner in a Bahamas development that will cost $3.4 billion and will be the first international project for China State Construction Engineering Corporation. Baha Mar will feature several hotels and will bring thousands of jobs to the country. He spoke with Global Gaming Business Editor Frank Legato after the groundbreaking ceremonies last week in Nassau, the Bahamas.
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WEEKLY FEATURE: Interior Kills Catskills Casino
The $560 million Stockbridge casino that would have come about after an agreement with former New York Governor David Patterson (l.) ends at the federal level—and revives a New York land claim by the Wisconsin tribe of Mohicans.
‘Mission Accomplished’
The official ‘grand opening’ was completed for Marina Bay Sands last week, almost a year after the doors opened last April, with the opening of the integrated resort’s final piece, the ArtScience Museum (l.). But the job isn’t finished, according to Las Vegas Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson.
One More Week for Christie
A quirk in New Jersey law gives Governor Christ Christie (l.) another week to consider the state’s online gaming bill. Some are speculating that he will decide to at least conditionally veto the bill and send it back to the legislature for changes.
MGM China IPO Delayed?
Conflicting reports continue to surface questioning whether MGM Resorts will immediately issue its initial public offering on its Macau ventures or will delay it because of the uncertainty over the distribution of the shares of Stanley Ho in SJM, where Ho daughter and MGM partner Pansy Ho (l.) is playing a key role.
Sands’ ‘Euro-Vegas’
Las Vegas Sands’ Sheldon Adelson (l.) proposes a massive casino resort in Spain that he says would be a ‘mini-Vegas” and would create 180,000 jobs.
New Owners at Hard Rock Vegas
Regulators approve takeover of debt-laden Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas by Brookfield Asset Management and Warner Gaming LLC.