Harrah's New Orleans is a casino located in New Orleans, Louisiana, near the foot of Canal Street one block away from the Mississippi River. This is a 115,000 square foot (10,700 m 2 ) casino with about 2,100 slot machines, over 90 game tables and poker rooms. There are several dining venues ranging from buffet style to fine dining. Since it opened in 1999, Harrah's has rented a nearby hotel room to accommodate guests; at this time, the newly renovated 202-room Wyndham Riverfront Hotel provides such accommodations. To avoid room rentals, the casino opened the 27-story hotel tower with 450 rooms across the casino on September 21, 2006, just days before the arrival of the New Orleans Saints to the Louisiana Superdome. This is the only land-based private casino with table games in the state by Louisiana law (there are other casinos in the state with their gambling facilities on floating boats and horse racing with slot machines). This is referred to in the statute of the state as the "official game establishment", see Chp.10, Title 4 of the Louisiana Revision Statute.
The casino was closed after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 but reopened in the middle of Mardi Gras on February 17, 2006.
The location of the casino recently was the location of the Rivergate Convention Center, destroyed in 1995. A short tunnel built as part of the canceled Vieux CarrÃÆ' Â © Riverfront Expressway is used for valet parking and for entrance passing under Poydras Street.
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The casino was the brainchild of Christopher Hemmeter, a hotel developer in the Hawaiian Islands who returned to the mainland in 1991 when he began developing a casino game project including the nearby River City Casino. His biggest project is a $ 1 billion casino in New Orleans. Billed at the time as "the largest casino in the world". The original design resembled the Monte Carlo casino in 1861, intending to revive New Orleans's 1885 Cotton Exposition and Chicago World Columbia 1893 Exhibition. The developers estimated the casino would attract an additional million visitors to the city and would generate an annual income of $ 780 million, based on the proven success of the dock game in the Mississippi Gulf Coast region.
In 1993 a partnership of Hemmeter and Caesars World earned a lease on the Rivergate property, which by law was the only place a land-based casino could be built in Louisiana, beating rival bids by Harrah. However, in August 1993, the State Casino Board granted Harrah's sole-state casino license and not the Hemmeter-Caesar partnership. The deadlock of one company that has the only license and the other has the only agreement settled when the two entities formed a joint venture under pressure from then-current Governor Edwin Edwards. The new entity, known as "Harrah's Jazz", established a temporary casino at the Municipal Auditorium to build cash flow while a major facility is being built at Rivergate. The temporary facility opened in May 1995 and a week later was closed due to flooding. The site's poor location resulted in the actual game falling 60% below the projection of only $ 13.1 million per month. Equally important is that 60% of gamers in temporary facilities are locals and not out-of-towners, dismissive advocates of economic benefits are hoping gambling will give the tourism industry.
Harrah's Jazz stopped the construction of a permanent facility at 3 am the day before Thanksgiving, 1995 and laid off 1,600 construction workers and 2,500 casino employees, and filed for bankruptcy. Later, the project was taken over by Harrah's, which was completed (though backed up with only the first floor used to this day) and opened in late October 1999 at Harrah's New Orleans Casino at the Hemmeter project site.
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See also
- List of Entertainment Caesars
- List of casinos
References
External links
- Harrah's New Orleans Hotel website
- The Rivergate (1968-1995)
- Harrah Online Casinos Website
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