Casinos Provide Offense to Vikings, Palms Casino Opens Dayclub
by Jack Prophet | Nov 17 2011
Casino Revenues to Help Fund New Vikings Stadium
It seems that everyone can use a helping hand now and then including professional football teams. The storied Minnesota Vikings have been seeking a new stadium to play in for well over ten years and it looks like
slot machines and
Craps will come to the rescue. An expanded casino gambling initiative is being discussed as the missing piece in the quest to build a new stadium.
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The challenge for sports teams who want to build new stadiums in small markets is the exorbitant cost of doing so. Often the process degenerates into a battle of wills between municipal, state, and team interests with typically a lot of conflict as each threatens to withdraw from the process to force concessions from the other parties. The negotiations are usually painful and often resemble a game of
baccarat with weapons. Given the one billion dollar plus price tag of a modern stadium these days it is no wonder that it often takes years of bargaining to get one built.
Ultimately it looks like it might be a little smoother of a process in Minnesota particularly as the team is committed to remaining in the state. The Vikings have promised to come up with around 600 million dollars while the local county has committed to raising sales taxes by .5%. The remaining piece has been described as coming from expanded gambling initiatives, which is interesting as there is nothing currently on the table and Minnesota at this time has only First Nation casinos.
Minnesota however is currently reviewing expanded gambling as many states are. The very fact that new gambling revenues are being touted as a stadium funding contributor seems to signal that it is a very likely outcome. No word on when that will be though and even the most optimistic pro-stadium supporters acknowledge that a new stadium is at least two years away.
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Palms Casino and Resort Launches a "Dayclub"
Let's face it. It's not very hard to be drunk by two in the afternoon in Las Vegas. It is however pretty hard to be drunk at two while dancing to the pounding beats of a DJ and getting your groove on. Prior to last week it would have meant being escorted away from the
Pai Gow table where you had been partaking of free booze and smokes for the last few hours and being told to sleep it off.
Thanks to the Palms Casino and Resort however you can now party like its 1999 all day long. The Palm has long been an innovator in Las Vegas entertainment and the "dayclub" should be no exception. Starting last week the party got started at 1pm at the top of the Palms in the GhostBar dayclub with opening "night" being a success by all accounts.
Although the gimmick likely won't compete with the
slot machines and
Caribbean Hold'em tables for most of the daytime visitors to the Palms, it will certain make public drunkenness and early afternoon lewd dancing much less embarrassing the next day.
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