casino projects

Stingy credit markets test US casino projects

Newsvine - business  Wed, 07/09/2008 - 16:38

The troubled credit markets that are creating problems for home buyers and other borrowers also are disrupting the capital-intensive casino industry — driving up construction costs and delaying and even jeopardizing whole projects.


 

Snake Eyes: AC's Hot Hand May Be Cooling

Newsvine - business  Sun, 03/02/2008 - 14:35

Unlike gamblers on a hot streak who think the good times will never end, the casinos know better. Yet companies have forged on with plans to spend at least $9 billion on a wave of new casino projects in the country's second-largest gambling destination, even as not-so-subtle signs were surfacing that it might be time to walk away from the table for a while.