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It took a year, but Biloxi, Mississippi is starting to resemble the gambling jewel of the south it was before Hurricane Katrina changed everything and closed all 12 casinos last August.
Grand casino biloxi pre-katrina Photos from Before and After Hurricane Katrina - A look at some of Katrinas catastrophic effects on the coastal towns of South Mississippi including Waveland, Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, Long Beach, Gulfport, Biloxi, Ocean Springs, Gautier and PascagoulaHarrahs Gulf Coast in Biloxi, Mississippi is a newer casino, built on the location of the former Grand.
Half the casinos that were destroyed have been reopened and by the time October comes, nine casinos will be open in the Biloxi area, with several more scheduled to open within the year.
When you stay at Palace Casino Resort in Biloxi, you'll be next to a golf course, within a 5-minute drive of Biloxi Beach and Biloxi Lighthouse. This 4-star hotel is 6.8 mi (10.9 km) from Beauvoir and 9 mi (14.5 km) from Gulfport Beach. The Grand's Casino Barge Crushed Ohr Museum Building: The Grand's casino barge looking east on U.S.90: Biloxi Grand's main site is still closed six months after Katrina but the property is being maintained. Grand's Biloxi Casino Barge six months after Katrina. Demolition is nearly complete. This photo is taken on March 5, 2006. Pre-Katrina, Biloxi was the third-largest city in Mississippi, behind Jackson and Gulfport. Due to the widespread destruction and flooding, many refugees left the city. Post-Katrina, the population of Biloxi decreased, and it became the fifth-largest city in the state, being surpassed by Hattiesburg and Southaven. The Palace Casino in Biloxi, MS after Hurricane Katrina. 360 degree panorama in the Biloxi Back Bay at the Palace Casino. Katrina’s 30 foot storm surge, the highest ever recorded in America, knocked down walls in the casino parking garage and tossed the Palace Casino barge up on shore.
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Palace Casino Resort, Imperial Palace, Grand Biloxi, Isle of Capri, Boomtown and Treasure Bay are now open. Harrah's Grand Biloxi was the latest casino to reopen, which it did on Thursday. Some of these casinos were open within four months of the storm.
MGM's Beau Rivage is scheduled to reopen Aug. 29, which is the one-year anniversary that Katrina hit the coast. Casino Magic will become Hollywood Casino and is scheduled to reopen Sept. 1, and Copa Gulfport is scheduled to reopen as Island View Resort sometime in mid-September.
The new casino will eventually sit on the former Harrah's Gulfport Grand Casino's property. A temporary casino will open in the hotel in September.
Other casinos have had a harder time of it. Hard Rock Casino, which celebrated its grand opening only a few days before Katrina came ashore, remains closed. It will reopen sometime next year. The President Casino and Grand Casino Gulfport will not reopen.
The Silver Slipper is scheduled to reopen sometime this fall, and the Bacaran Bay Casino Resort, an all-suite hotel and condominium complex located on the gulf coast in Biloxi will be open sometime in 2008.
People will remember the pictures of casino barges washed ashore in Biloxi. The storm helped the casino industry persuade lawmakers to allow its casinos to be built on solid land.
Before the hurricane, casinos had to float, even though they weren't designed to go anywhere. Now the new and rebuilt casinos can be placed on solid land, but are still restricted to being near the water.
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After Las Vegas and Atlantic City, the Mississippi coast has the third-most casinos in the country.
Biloxi Before Katrina
There has been a lot of discussion about the Gulf coast since Katrina. Most of these discussions focus on the current gaming conditions. Which are not that bad, BUT.... as shown in this article (from 2001)...
http://www.casino.com/blackjack/article.asp?id=329 (Archive copy)
the conditions for gaming pre-Katrina were definitely better. All the $1, $2 and $3 shoe games no longer exist. The DD pitch games for $5 and $10 are extinct. :cry:
Will these conditions ever return?
When will these conditions ever return?
Will these low min games just become a thing of the past. Once consumed by inflation...never to be returned?
Have the casinos seen that they can survive without them?
Is there even a remote chance that competition can prevail and these games can return?
http://www.casino.com/blackjack/article.asp?id=329 (Archive copy)
the conditions for gaming pre-Katrina were definitely better. All the $1, $2 and $3 shoe games no longer exist. The DD pitch games for $5 and $10 are extinct. :cry:
Will these conditions ever return?
When will these conditions ever return?
Will these low min games just become a thing of the past. Once consumed by inflation...never to be returned?
Have the casinos seen that they can survive without them?
Is there even a remote chance that competition can prevail and these games can return?