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The casino boat is a 268-foot (82 m), four-deck sternwheeler built by Avondale Shipyard. [1] It has 28,500 square feet (2,650 m 2) of gaming space spread across three decks, containing 350 slot machines and 10 table games.
Horseshoe Bossier City is a riverboat casino in Bossier City, Louisiana, across the river from Shreveport. Horseshoe Bossier City has 606 suites in its 25-story hotel tower. Horseshoe has over 1,500 slot machines and over 60 table games. Horseshoe has over 200 video poker machines, and a 14-table poker room.
List of casinos in the U.S. state of Louisiana [1]; Casino City Parish State District type Comments Amelia Belle: Amelia: St. Mary: Louisiana: Riverboat: Formerly Bally's, Belle of Orleans.
[32] [33] The Louisiana Riverboat Gaming Commission, however, did not award the one available casino license to Century, instead selecting the application for Horseshoe Bossier City. [ 34 ] In November 1995, Century signed a $1.1-million deal to manage a casino planned for the Greek island of Rhodes , being developed by a consortium including ...
In August 1999, the company agreed to buy the Miss Marquette riverboat in Marquette, Iowa from Sodak Gaming for $42 million, [63] and separately, the Lady Luck trademark and the Las Vegas property from Tompkins for $45.5 million. [64] The company's financial advisers expressed doubt, though, that funding could be secured at an acceptable cost. [65]
In 2007, after the ship was repaired in Mobile, Alabama following extensive storm damage from Hurricane Katrina, the riverboat was towed to Bayou Boeuf to its new home in Amelia, Louisiana. Since Bayou Boeuf is part of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, it is deemed one of nine channels in Louisiana where riverboat casinos are permitted. [ 8 ]
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Boomtown New Orleans (formerly Boomtown Westbank) is a casino hotel located on the West Bank of Jefferson Parish in Harvey, Louisiana. It is on a 54-acre (220,000 m 2) site. It is owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn Entertainment.