Harrah’s to build new casino in Biloxi

April 11, 2007

In an online gambling news brief we want to report to our readers about the new plan for a big casino built by Harrah’s in Biloxi. Mississippi. Many of out online casino gambling fans out there know about Biloxi from either going there to gamble or from the huge devastating action from Hurricane Katrina nearly two years ago.

Today, we have learned that Harrah's Entertainment Inc. has great plans in effect to construct a new land based casino in Biloxi, intensifying its presence in the Mississippi Gulf Coast gambling area, which is still obviously recharging its batteries from massive hurricane damage.

Some of our online gambling news article readers out there may remember that Harrah's Grand Biloxi Casino was one of many barge floating casinos dotted around the coastal town that were almost completely destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, which battered the Gulf Coast with high winds and a massive storm surge. In fact it was the storm surge that did the most damage – not the wind.

So, because of the massive flooding, casino wanted to rebuild on land instead of on floating barges to come back to the area at all. Without the ability to build on land, many casinos were not ready to rebuild due to the massive amounts of money they lost with Katrina.

Legislature has been changed and reconsidered in order to bring more casinos back to the area. The town is still not back to 100% and this new casino will certainly help. The local economy pretty much completely relies on gambling income, even though it is a coastal town. With nearby Florida beaches claiming so many visitors, gambling has to return to 100% in the Biloxi area for economy sake.

We will keep our online gambling readers posted as to any ne2w information regarding the new casino from Harrah’s as soon as details become public.

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