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Casino Magic Heads for Bossier City, La.11 October 1996BAY SAINT LOUIS, Miss., Oct. 7 Casino Magic Corp. (Nasdaq: CMAG), has received authorization from the Louisiana Gaming Control Board to open its new gaming operation in Bossier City, Louisiana on Friday Oct. 4, 1996. Currently, the gaming facility includes 3O,OOO square feet of gaming space (the maximum allowed under the current Louisiana regulation); 44 table games and 984 slot machines; 600 surface parking spaces and 750 employees. While in operation, construction of a 37,000-square-foot entertainment pavilion and a 1,550 car covered parking garage continues and is scheduled to open in December of this year. The entertainment pavilion is designed to include a buffet restaurant, a gift shop, a bar and lounge area, and an entertainment stage area. Casino Magic management said that the Bossier City/Shreveport market is the only gaming market in Louisiana with continuous 24-hour dockside gaming, without cruising or simulated cruising schedules. One has just to look at the teeny Red River to understand why the boats there are built in basins.
Casino Magic Corp., a Minnesota corporation with principal offices in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi, operates gaming casinos in Bay Saint Louis and Biloxi, Mississippi; Bossier City, Louisiana; Neuquen City and San Martin de los Andes, Argentina, and Porto Carras and Xanthi, Greece. |