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Crown Closes Deal For Riverboat

Crown Casino Corp.'s wholly owned subsidiary St. Charles Gam- ing Co. closed the purchase and took possession of the completed, 292-ft. (89-m) riverboat casino Crown Ca- sino, a vessel for operation at the company's Charles Parish, La. loca- tion.

The tri-deck boat underwent sea trials and received its Certificate of

Inspection from the U.S. Coast

Guard.

Equipped with approximately 777 slot machines and 44 table games, the vessel was to enter service late this summer.

Boomtown Receives

Mississippi Gaming License

Boomtown Inc. received a gam- ing license from the Mississippi

State Gaming Commission, on July 1 at a hearing held in Biloxi. The company opened the Boomtown

Biloxi, as scheduled, in mid-July.

The 30,000-sq.-ft. casino is situated on a 400-foot barge.

Argosy Receives Missouri

Gaming License, Opens

Riverside Casino

Argosy Gaming Co. and its wholly owned subsidiary, The Missouri

Gaming Co., opened its Argosy Riv- erside Casino in Riverside, Mo.

Located approximately five miles from downtown Kansas City, the

Argosy Riverside Casino will ini- tially utilize the former Par-A-Dice vessel, which the company recently acquired. The 34,000-sq.-ft., three- level riverboat accommodates 1,200 passengers and has approximately 12,500-sq.-ft. of gaming space, in- cluding 52 blackjack tables, and 219 video poker and blackj ack machines.

Subject to the passage of a constitu- tional amendment allowing for games of chance, Argosy plans to build a land-based facility, spending more than $50 million. The com- pany anticipates delivery of the per- manent Argosy Riverside Casino vessel later in the summer, and the new three-level, 57,000-sq.-ft. ves- sel will accommodate approximately 1,800 passengers and crew, featur- ing 30,000-sq.-ft. of gaming space.

The new vessel will measure 240 ft. (73.2 m) long and 77 ft. (23.5 m) wide with a 13-ft. (4-m) ceiling.

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As the riverboat casino market records tremendous gains in poularity across the U.S., the skylines of cities which have legal- ized this form of entertainment will continue to change.

August, 1994