{"id":7015,"date":"2014-02-20T16:39:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T16:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/02\/20\/florida-dania-casino-to-open-thursday-night\/"},"modified":"2014-02-20T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T16:39:29","slug":"florida-dania-casino-to-open-thursday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/02\/20\/florida-dania-casino-to-open-thursday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida; Dania Casino to open Thursday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i59.tinypic.com\/2eq5e88.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\tBy Nick Sortal, Sun Sentinel<br \/>\n\tFebruary 20, 2014<\/p>\n<p>\tDania Casino will open Thursday with 550 slot machines, 12 poker tables and seven years of catching up to do.<\/p>\n<p>\tIt&#8217;s the first phase of a massive renovation at the 61-year-old jai-alai fronton, which is the last Broward County pari-mutuel to add slot machines. Three others did so in 2006 and 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\tOnly about a quarter of the Dania Casino property will open Thursday. The jai-alai auditorium will remain blocked off from the public as workers embark on the second phase, which will take at least a year to complete. Three rows of seats remain for people who still want to watch jai-alai.<\/p>\n<p>\tA VIP party will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday, followed by an opening to the public at 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\tThursday marks a major milestone in a long journey for what formerly was known as Dania Jai-Alai. Las Vegas-based Boyd Gaming bought the fronton for $152 million in 2006, when Broward County voters approved slots. But Boyd officials chose not to renovate, citing a 50 percent tax on slots and nearby competition from the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. (The state lowered that tax to 35 percent in 2010.)<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nick Sortal, Sun Sentinel February 20, 2014 Dania Casino will open Thursday with 550 slot machines, 12 poker tables and seven years of catching up to do. It&#8217;s the first phase of a massive renovation at the 61-year-old jai-alai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}