Harrah's Grand Casino Gulfport
- Harrah's Grand Casino Gulfport Oasis Resort And Spa
- Harrah's Grand Casino Gulfport Players Club
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Beau Rivage shortly after Katrina | Treasure Bay shipwrecked |
Treasure Bay Casino barge | Six months after Katrina, work to demolish the Treasure Bay's Casino barge is underway. |
Treasure Bay Casino Main Building | Gaping hole in the Grand's Barge shows slots ready to play |
The Grand's Casino Barge Crushed Ohr Museum Building | The Grand's casino barge looking east on U.S.90 |
Biloxi Grand's main site is still closed six months after Katrina but the property is being maintained. | Grand's Biloxi Casino Barge six months after Katrina. Demolition is nearly complete. This photo is taken on March 5, 2006. |
Biloxi Casino Magic silhouetted looking west on U.S.90 photographed several weeks after Katrina. | Casino Magic six months after Katrina remains closed. No work is underway. No word on when the casino will reopen. |
Hard Rock suffered extensive damages. Photo shortly after Katrina. | Six months later, there is no work underway on the Hard Rock as the money for its repair is tied up in a legal issue. However, developers are maintaining the property. It's casino barge suffered catastrophic damages. |
President Casino Barge shortly after Katrina. | President Casino Barge five months after Katrina. |
Repairs are underway on the Palace Casino. Photo taken several weeks after Katrina. | Six months later, the Palace Casino is open with a new land-based casino inside its hotel. But repairs are still being made. |
Boomtown survived the storm on Back Bay, but damaged | Imperial Palace survived with only modest damages. |
Boomtown Casino six months after Katrina. Boomtown's casino barge has been taken to a Pascagoula Shipyard for repairs. It normally would be seen on the left side of the photo. The casino is set to reopen late in 2006. But look for a different configuration. Boomtown is plans to move its casino barge to a new mooring location. The fill dirt seen in this photo is just south of the new mooring location. | Imperial Palace is open. Photo six months after Katrina. |
Gulfport Grand suffered major damages. Harrah's, which owned the Gulfport Grand, has sold the property to the Copa's owners, who will open a new casino in the former Grand Oasis Hotel. | Gulfport Grand Entrance |
Copa Casino was destroyed | Gulfport Grand's Hotel |
Casino Row looking east. Harrah's recently demolished the Grand's Island View Hotel in the foreground right. The entire Grand Casino property will be redesigned.
| Biloxi Casino Row by Satellite Click on image for larger version - Sat Photo by NOAA
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| Grand Casino Gulfport | |
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Former Grand Casino Gulfport hotel, after Hurricane Katrina washed its casino barge away | |
| Location | Gulfport, Mississippi |
| Address | 3215 W Beach Blvd |
| Opening date | May 1993 |
| No. of rooms | 1,000 |
| Total gaming space | 90,000 sq ft (8,400 m2) |
| Coordinates | 30°21′44.28″N89°6′4.32″W / 30.3623000°N 89.1012000°WCoordinates: 30°21′44.28″N89°6′4.32″W / 30.3623000°N 89.1012000°W |
Grand Casino Gulfport was a riverboat casino and hotel in Gulfport, Mississippi, United States. It was owned and operated by Harrah's Entertainment. Prior to its destruction by Hurricane Katrina, the casino had two hotels with a total of 1,000 rooms, and a 90,000-square-foot (8,400 m2) casino.
History[edit]
The property was opened by Grand Casinos in May 1993.[1] An expansion was completed in 1999, adding 594 hotel rooms and a spa and salon.[2]
During 2005, Grand Casino Gulfport was a Caesars Entertainment property. After the ownership changed to Harrah's Entertainment, the company announced that this casino would be converted to the Harrah's brand. But before that could take place, the property was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. While most of the hotel facility remained intact, the casino barge was washed ashore during the hurricane and partially blocked Beach Boulevard (U.S. Highway 90), the beach front's main roadway. In an effort to clear the road, the casino was imploded on September 21, 2005.
In December 2005, Harrah's announced that the site and any remaining assets were being sold to Gulfside Casino Partnership, the owners of the adjacent Copa Casino, the Grand's neighboring competitor whose own casino barge was swept into the Grand's parking lot by Katrina. The Copa Casino Gulfport, which had been located in a berth at the Mississippi State Docks, purchased the Grand site for its own post-Katrina expansion plans. The Skybridge and/or Catwalk redirects to a parking lot and you can go to the hotel. The casino is now called the Island View Casino.
Harrah's Grand Casino Gulfport Oasis Resort And Spa
References[edit]
Harrah's Grand Casino Gulfport Players Club
- ^'Grand Casinos 'pleased' with Gulfport opening' (Press release). Grand Casinos. May 19, 1993. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2015-01-12 – via The Free Library.
- ^'Grand Casino Gulfport opens spa'. Travel Weekly. September 14, 1999. Retrieved 2015-01-12.