New Slot Machine Casino Expansion

The Mohegan Sun has announced their plan to create $740 million expansion of their slot machine casino that would include poker and the House of Blues. They are trying to bring in more clients to their slot machines and think that with the expansion they will have an opportunity to do so. They think that they are missing out on the market of people in their 20’s and Asians as the slot machines alone are not enough of a draw.

The Mohegan Sun is currently celebrating 10 years in the slot machine and gambling industry, and has roughly 10,000 employees. They expect to hire another 2,000 over the next five years. Their slot machines bring in roughly $1.5 billion annually in revenue from about 35,000 daily visitors.

They are adding a hotel, a House of Blues music hall and hotel, a restaurant and store. They are also adding a new Casino of the Wind which will add 964 slot machines. The casino already has 6,000 slot machines up and running. They think the new poker room will bring in the younger crowd as the slot machines seem to attract an older group. They are also opening the Casino of the Earth which will bring in Asians with a Hong Kong street food outlet, and table games and slot machines that are themed appropriately.

The casino originally closed down the poker room they had to make way for more slot machines, but realized that with its growing popularity they needed to bring it back. They did not however, want to reduce the number of slot machines that they were operating, so they added on a poker room to the expansion.

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