- Treasure Bay Casino After Hurricane Katrina
- Treasure Bay Casino Hurricane Katrina
- Treasure Bay Casino Biloxi After Hurricane Katrina
Biloxi's Boomtown Casino Opens to a full House
Treasure Bay's Temporary Casino Busy
Story and photos by Keith Burton - GCN
Filed 6/29/06
Treasure Bay's Temporary Casino Busy Story and photos by Keith Burton - GCN Filed 6/29/06. Ten months after Hurricane Katrina hit the Coast, Biloxi's Boomtown Casino becomes the fifth casino to reopen its doors. The parking lot outside the Back Bay casino was full Thursday morning after the casino reopened. It is our priority to provide players with an entertainment site that follows the international gaming standards. Social responsibility and player’s protection remain as our prime concern. 88ProBet strives to provide a comfortable and responsible gaming environment by offering assistance Treasure Bay Casino After Hurricane Katrina to players in need. 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. President Casino Barge - after Katrina (Google Maps). This is the President Casino Barge after the hurricane surge from Katrina washed it inland and ended up on the north side of hwy 90.
Ten months after Hurricane Katrina hit the Coast, Biloxi's Boomtown Casino becomes the fifth casino to reopen its doors. The parking lot outside the Back Bay casino was full Thursday morning after the casino reopened.
Unlike some of the other Coast casinos, Boomtown suffered extensive damages to its property but not catastrophic damages. The company had to send its casino barge to a Pascagoula shipyard for repairs earlier this year. There is still work going on all around the property as the casino has plans for growth in the near future.
Treasure Bay Casino After Hurricane Katrina
Work crews were also busy Thursday replacing the damage signs across from the Imperial Palace that point the way to Boomtown off of Caillevet Street.
Boomtown joins the IP, Isle of Capri, Palace and Treasure Bay that have reopened since the hurricane in Biloxi.
Treasure Bay Casino Hurricane Katrina
Meanwhile, Treasure Bay is doing a brisk business in a very small temporary casino inside the property's Highway 90 hotel. Treasure Bay opened a small casino lounge in their hotel earlier in June. The pirate barge and waterfront restaurant complex has been completely removed from Treasure Bay's beach-side property and all that remains there is part of the casino's main sign. All of the company's activity is now on the north side of Highway 90 in their hotel, which is undergoing an extensive renovation in preparation for a September opening.
Treasure Bay Casino Biloxi After Hurricane Katrina
Access to Treasure Bay's casino is through a long temporary blue-covered corridor from the hotel's parking lot.
Besides the slot machines on hand, there is also a small restaurant. Conditions are not what you normally expect from a casino, but just getting open following Katrina is a remarkable achievement. Patrons seemed to be enjoying themselves and west Biloxi residents are already happy to have one of their favorite casinos open.
Work has also finally gotten underway on Biloxi's Hard Rock Casino. The Hard Rock is scheduled to open for the first time in July 2007. The Hard Rock casino was scheduled to open just three days after Katrina hit the Mississippi Coast. Repairs after the storm were delayed over legal issues.
While much of the beachfront properties along Highway 90 remain cleared from the debris left from Katrina's destruction, few properties are seeing any reconstruction. However, a number of the beachfront road's smaller motels have been able to reopen, which are adding badly needed motel rooms to the Coast. There are no gas stations, fast food restaurants or stores open on U.S. 90 from Biloxi to Pass Christian.