Foxwoods and Sands Race to the Finish

The Foxwoods casino claims that they are ahead of the Sands – but the Sands says they aren’t. Both are constructing slot machine casinos, but they are vying for position in the race to see who will be next to last. By the time they are completed, all of the racetracks will have their slot machines, and all of the other stand alone casinos will be open for business.

Foxwoods says that they are moving faster than the Sands, although many in the state believe that they will be the last to open. Foxwoods says not true as they are building on 25 open acres and Bethlehem still has demolition to do before they can start building their slot machine casino.

Sands says that they also have that going for them in that many of their buildings are already completed, but will need to be retrofitted to hold the $560 million casino and entertainment complex. Some of their buildings will just need to be knocked down as they won’t be any use to the company at all.

Mount Airy is excited because they will be the first stand alone casino to open. They were so confident that they would be awarded the slot machine license that they thought they would start construction ahead of time – which they did. Because of that move they are already more than half way there – and will have 2,500 of their eventual 3,000 slot machines on line before the end of the year.



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