Richard N. Velotta’s Inside Gaming column appears Sunday and Wednesday in Business.
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Tim Bennett all but gave up on bringing minor league baseball to the Gulf Coast. Bennett, president of Jackson, Miss.-based Overtime Sports, spent a decade working on the idea. But the region’s recovery following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the recession that squeezed the area a few years later sidelined any plan of southern Mississippi landing a team.
It looks like International Game Technology employees are learning to fly Southwest Airlines.
After billionaire Donald Trump trashed Atlantic City during the nationally televised Republican presidential candidates’ debate, Geoff Freeman had to be smiling to himself.
Hurricane Katrina couldn’t crush the spirit of Harrah’s New Orleans 10 years ago. The aftermath of the massive storm shuttered the property near the Mississippi River and entrance to the famous French Quarter for just six months while the city recovered, reopening for Mardi Gras in February 2006.
Billionaire Sheldon Adelson remains Macau’s most optimistic and vocal cheerleader.
The gaming industry’s top provider of payment processing equipment will unveil a new name, logo and New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol later this month that reflects the Las Vegas-based company’s place within the casino equipment manufacturing sector.
The $4.75 billion merger of Pinnacle Entertainment and Gaming and Leisure Partners isn’t your typical casino industry buyout.
Christian Goode traded away the prospects of pandas on the Strip to oversee the reopening of a central California Indian casino that was shut down last fall by federal agents.
The Lake Charles, La., casino market is the best example why the investment community has done a 180-degree turn on the U.S. gaming operators.
It hasn’t been a quiet year for MGM Resorts International. The general belief is that it’s going to get much louder.
The Carano family, through its Eldorado Resorts Inc., has bet the house on Reno. The odds are seemingly tipped in their favor.
A property tax refund for Boyd Gaming Corp. could spell additional trouble for financially challenged Atlantic City.
The opening of the $250 million Plainridge Park Casino last month wasn’t exactly the grand unveiling Massachusetts gaming backers envisioned more than four years ago.
A manuever in Greece hits the bottom lines of Nevada’s two largest slot machine manufacturers, costing Scientific Games Corp., and International Game Technology millions of dollars in revenue and cash flow.
As SLS Las Vegas nears its one-year anniversary in August, it’s become clear the north Strip hotel is having trouble finding its niche in the resurgent Strip market.
