Friday, January 26, 2007

Giant Dome Going Up in Atlantic City



Copied from Triangle Poker Journal




Triangle Poker Journal


Subscribe free at www.trianglepokerjournal.com


90-foot-high domed spa part of $550M. Harrah's project

ATLANTIC CITY — For sheer magnificence, it may fall short of the domes of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and the Capitol in Washington, but it is spectacular in its own right.


There is nothing quite like it in the casino industry. Not even in Las Vegas.


Soaring 90 feet high, the huge glass-enclosed structure should help Harrah's become, well, a more dome-ineering force in the fierce competition with next door neighbor Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa for the high-end gambling market.


“It will be a tropical paradise under a glass dome,” R. Scott Barber, senior vice president and general manager of Harrah's Atlantic City, boasted Tuesday during a media tour of the new building.


This dome and the posh spa housed within it are the aesthetic centerpiece of a $550 million expansion that will transform Harrah's into a more upscale casino hotel reminiscent of the glamorous gaming palaces of Las Vegas.




Copied from Triangle Poker Journal

No comments: