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Caesars Back In Japan

On September 29, the group chosen to develop an integrated in Wakayama, Japan announced a new member of the consortium: Caesars Entertainment.

Clairvest Neem Ventures, a unit of Vancouver-based Clairvest Group, disclosed that Caesars had joined its partnership, replacing France’s Group Partouche as would-be operator of the US$4.21 billion project.  Together with the local government, they will jointly bid for a license to site, develop and operate an IR at Wakayama’s Marina City.

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Caesars Entertainment returns to Japan with help of Clairvest Neem Ventures

by IPM News

Clairvest Neem Ventures K.K. (CNV) announced the participation of Caesars Entertainment, Inc. in its development and operating consortium for a Wakayama Marina City-based integrated resort in Japan. Caesars, which joins with no capital commitment, re-enters the Japanese market after pulling out in 2019 amid a takeover bid by Eldorado Resorts that was completed in July 2020.

A news release put out by CNV said the combination aligns CNV, “one of the most experienced integrated resort development and management teams in the world, with Caesars Entertainment, one of the gaming industry’s best-known brands and an elite casino operator.”

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UPDATED: Caesars Entertainment joins Clairvest Neem Ventures in the future Wakayama Marina City IR project

by Buck Wargo

Clairvest Neem Ventures K.K. (CNV) announced the participation of Caesars Entertainment, Inc., in its development and operating consortium for a Wakayama Marina City-based integrated resort in Japan.  Caesars, which joins with no capital commitment, re-enters the Japanese market after pulling out in 2019 amid a takeover bid by Eldorado Resorts that was completed in July 2020.

A news release put out by CNV said the combination aligns CNV, “one of the most experienced integrated resort development and management teams in the world, with Casears Entertainment, one of the gaming industry’s best-known brands and an elite casino operator.

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GMA quoted in Forbes

Nevada On Six-Month Hot Streak With $1Billion-plus In Gambling Revenue

by Will Yakowicz

Las Vegas’ luck has not run out yet.

Nevada collected $625.7 million in gambling revenue from casinos on the Las Vegas Strip in August, which is up 20% from pre-pandemic levels in August 2019, according to numbers released Thursday by the Nevada Gaming Control Board.  Sin City’s revenue increase over the same month in 2019 is another sign that Vegas is continuing its recovery from the Covid-19 recession.

“I think we are still in a trajectory of growth,” says Michael Lawton, a senior research analyst for the Nevada Gaming Control Board.  “I’m not going to guarantee a $1 billion again, but the blueprint is there to continue.”

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GMA quoted in the Las Vegas Review Journal

Caesars teams with Canadian company to bid to build resort in Japan

by Richard N. Velotta

Caesars Entertainment Inc. is partnering with a Canadian private equity management firm to bid to build a seaside integrated resort near Tokyo, representatives of the Reno-based company said Wednesday.

Caesars will work with Clairvest Neem Ventures K.K., which was vetted by Japanese authorities for a project at Wakayama Marina City in July.

“We are thrilled to partner with Caesars Entertainment,” said Eddie Woo, representative director of Clairvest Neem Ventures.

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GMA quoted in The Nevada Independent

Caesars rejoins Japanese gaming license hunt a day after MGM wins Osaka approval

by Howard Stutz

Caesars Entertainment said Wednesday it was joining the consortium of developers involved in the proposed Japanese integrated resort project in Wakayama, which includes former Las Vegas Sands executives and Clairvest, a Canadian private equity firm.

The announcement came a day after the city of Osaka endorsed MGM Resorts International’s plans for the country’s first large-scale casino.

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GMA quoted in the Las Vegas Review Journal

Cosmo sold in $5.65B deal; MGM to take over resort operations

by Colton Lochhead

the Blackstone Group is selling The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas in a $5.65 billion deal that will extend MGM Resorts International’s footprint along the Strip.

MGM agreed to purchase the resort’s operations for $1.625 billion, while the underlying real estate of The Cosmopolitan will be sold to a group of buyers that includes a Blackstone real estate investment trust.

The sale comes seven years after Blackstone purchased the resort for $1.73 billion and marks a major return on the $500 million the company invested into the property to renovate nearly 3,000 guest rooms, complete several high-end luxury suites and upgrade bar and restaurant offerings.

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GMA quoted in The Nevada Independent

Indy Gaming: MGM Resorts finally lands Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, 13 years and two CEOS later

Somewhere, Jim Murren is smiling.

In 2008, the then-CEO of MGM Mirage was scrambling to finance the remaining costs to build the massive CityCenter complex, which had a price tag of almost $9 billion.  He approached Deutsche Bank with an ides to take the unfinished Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas off the financial institutions hands. Deutsche Bank had acquired the debt-ridden property out of foreclosure.

MGM and joint venture partner Infinity World would assume control over the Cosmopolitan in exchange for ownership shares in CityCenter. Deutsche Bank would also provide the joint venture with a loan of $1.2 billion to complete CityCenter.

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GMA quoted in the Black Hills Pioneer

Deadwood scores sports betting: Here’s how to play

by Jaci Conrad Pearson

Just in time for the first day of the NFL football season, Deadwood gaming officials have finally succeeded in getting sports betting across the goal line.

While signing up to play isn’t tricky, what to do from there, can lead to a question or two. Here’s how players in this gaming venture in the Gulch can score.

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GMA quoted in the Nevada Independent

‘What’s the endgame?’ No resolution projected as decades-long feud between Culinary and Station Casinos continues

by Howard Stutz

A second-floor meeting hall in the aging downtown Las Vegas headquarters of Culinary Workers Local 226 has long attracted local, state and national candidates seeking support from the influential labor group’s membership.

Oftentimes, Station Casinos is a talking point.

In November 2019, Vice President Kamala Harris, then a California senator who was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, told an employee from Palace Station she wouldn’t support a bill that would give Station Casinos parent company, Red Rock Resorts, a tax break.  Harris noted she wrote a letter to CEO Frank Fertitta III, expressing that sentiment.

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