Two Louisiana Riverboat Casinos Look to Move Ashore

At least two LA casinos at present operating inward riverboats inwards the southern portion of the province could reopen as land-based play halls.

In Lake Charles, the Isle of Capri riverboat casino, dislodged during a hurricane inwards 2020, testament reopen next year as a land-based property, Lt. Henry Martyn Robert Fontenot of the Louisiana State Police told Casino.org. Lake Charles II is in the southwestern piece of the state, close the TX border. The Isle of Capri is owned by Nevada-based Caesars Entertainment.

In the New siege of Orleans area, the Kenner City Council this month approved a 25-year letting for the Treasure Chest riverboat casino. The rent gives the owner, Nevada-based Boyd Gaming, the correct to turn up the gambling casino on solid ground instead of water, according to nola.com. The Treasure Chest is on Lake Pontchartrain, northwest of downtown New Orleans.

Kenner Mayor Ben Zahn said allowing the Treasure Chest to go ashore testament land to a greater extent people to the casino and encouragement taxation revenue for the city, nola.com reported.

”That helps majuscule projects inwards the city,” he said. “That helps the police.”

Louisiana is rest home to 13 riverboat casinos, 1 land-based cassino inward New Orleans, and iv racinos.

When riverboat casinos were number 1 authorised in the betimes 1990s, the boats were required to journey into opened water outside from the port. That was changed inward 2001 to let the riverboats to remain docked. In 2018, the law was familiarized to take into account riverboats to live scrapped inward favor of land-based operations.

From the beginning, the Harrah’s gambling casino inward downtown New siege of Orleans was allowed to be land-based.

Deadly Storm

The Gulf Coast on Mon continued to regain from Tropical Storm Claudette. The violent storm pelted Louisiana and MS this weekend before veering eastwards into other Southern states.

At to the lowest degree 13 people were killed inward the storm. This includes ogdoad children from an Camellia State nursing home for neglected and abused youths. The children were inward a van mired inwards a crash that authorities believe was caused past the storm.

Before sweeping into Camellia State and other states, Claudette left hand as a great deal as 12 inches of rainwater on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, causing flashbulb floods and displacing many residents from their homes.

Casinos ‘Up and Running’

Unlike lastly year’s book storm season along the Gulf Coast, Claudette did non make major issues for the cassino manufacture in Pelican State and Mississippi, officials said.

On Monday, Fontenot said the Pelican State casinos were open.

No reports of damage to our gaming properties,” he told Casino.org.

Allen Godfrey, executive director theatre director of the Mississippi River Gaming Commission, told Casino.org on Mon the force brought a lot of rain, but the casinos “are upward and running.”

Mississippi has 26 commercial casinos. Of those,12 are on the Gulf Coast. Eight are in the Biloxi coastal area.

A record book 30 named storms developed during shoemaker's last year’s Atlantic Ocean hurricane season. Twelve made landfall inwards the US. Five impinge on Louisiana. In improver to 2 venomous hurricanes cobbler's last twelvemonth in the Lake Charles I area, fast-moving Hurricane Zeta ripped through New siege of Orleans in October, swamping casinos due east of on that point inwards Mississippi.

This year’s hurricane harden runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. It also is expected to be active.