Global Casino BOOM

This thing keeps chugging:

In the surroundings of Bezenye (population: 1,650) € 470 million are expected to be invested in the casino complex, and € 228 million in the adjacent Experience City. The necessary real-estate – more than 330 hectares – has been purchased bit by bit from the town’s inhabitants over recent years, mostly at ten times the going rate. According to media reports this was mostly poor quality land ill-suited for farming. “Bezenye is Hungary’s happiest place at present”, wrote the Internet    (more…)

This would be pretty sweet for Hungary if it gets built.  $1.5 billion is not bad.

Full press release

The granting of this licence will enable Plaza to commence construction of this major mixed use project. Totalling over 350,000 sqm of gross built area, the scheme will include approximately 3,000 hotel rooms in several hotels of different categories as well as approximately 1,000 leisure apartments, a convention centre accommodating 3,500 delegates, a 1,500 seat opera house, a 3,500 seat multi-purpose theatre, a marina with an anchorage for 300 vessels, a shopping and entertainment centre including a prestigious ‘Designer avenue’, a Roman cultural museum, and parking facilities for approximately 5,500 vehicles, as well as the casino of 40,000 sqm. It is located on the southern end of Obuda Island in the Danube River in central Budapest.

I dont know about you, but all this talk about casinos is making me HUNGRY!