Mississippi

Mississippi Gaming Commission To Hold Hearing To Approve South Beach Casino Site

On Thursday, March 23, the developer of South Beach Casino and Resort will have a location approval hearing from the Mississippi Gaming Commission. On that note, South Mississippi may have one more competito...

MGM Resorts Finalizes Sale of Gold Strike Tunica; Churchill Downs Incorporated Sells Arlington Heights Property To Chicago Bears

On February 15, MGM Resorts International, a leading internationally recognized hospitality and entertainment company based in Las Vegas, Nevada, reported that it has completed the sale of its subsidiary Gold S...

Casino Queen Marquette Gets Approval From Iowa Regulator To Move Ashore

On Thursday, its St. Louis-based owner, Queen Casino and Entertainment, publicly announced that Casino Queen Marquette, one of Iowa's boathouse casinos, received approval from the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commiss...

U.S. gambling hit record $54.9 billion in revenue in 2022

The American Gaming Association (AGA) reports that the US gambling revenue for the first 11 months of 2022 exceeded the record set in 2021. As for sports betting, the end of the year 2022 saw New York as th...

VICI Properties acquires Foundation Gaming’s properties for $293 million with 8.3% capitalization rate

Real estate investment trust, VICI Properties Inc., has purchased the real estate assets of the Fitz Casino & Hotel (“Fitz”), located in Tunica, Mississippi, and the WaterView Casino & Hotel (“WaterView...

Litigious lift for southern Mississippi’s envisioned Long Beach Harbor Resort

The plan to bring a 13th casino to the Gulf Coast region of Mississippi reportedly received a massive boost last week when the southern state’s highest court ruled in favor of the developer behind the envisione...

Boom Entertainment partnership for Rush Street Interactive Incorporated

American online casino and sportsbetting operator Rush Street Interactive Incorporated has announced that it has made a minority investment in remote games and technology developer Boom Entertainment. The Ch...