Colorado Belle is a hotel and casino located on the banks of the Colorado River in Laughlin, Nevada. The Colorado Belle is a fixed building made to look like a six-deck replica of a 19th-century Mississippi paddle wheel riverboat and has 1,168 rooms in two seven story towers. The casino has 42,706 sq ft (3,967.5 m2) of gaming space with approximately 1,200 slot machines, keno lounge and a poker room. A sports book is located on "B" deck. The hotel has six restaurants and two gift shops. The resort also includes two pools, a fitness room, a koi pond, a beauty spa, an arcade and a private beach on the river.
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History
Advanced Patent Technology, a slot machine maker and slot route operator, announced plans in 1979 for a hotel and casino with Ramada to manage the hotel. Construction began in October, as a joint venture with John Fulton, a Southern California restaurateur and the casino was opened on November 10, 1980.
In 1983, a preliminary agreement was reached to sell the casino to a group including attorney William Morris and Circus Circus Enterprises executives William Bennett and William Pennington for $1.6 million but Morris quit the deal a month later. The next year, Circus Circus bought the casino for $4 million, and made plans to move it to make room for an expansion of its neighboring Edgewater Laughlin.
Plans for a new Colorado Belle hotel and casino were unveiled in 1985 and it opened on July 1, 1987, at a cost of $80 million.
Circus Circus Enterprises later became Mandalay Resort Group in 1999 and was bought by MGM Mirage in 2005.
On October 16, 2006, MGM Mirage announced that it planned to sell the Colorado Belle and the Edgewater to a partnership of M Resort owner Anthony Marnell III and Sher Gaming for $200 million. The Nevada Gaming Commission approved the sale on May 17, 2007 and the completion of the transaction was announced on June 1, 2007.
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References
External links
- Official website
- Media related to Colorado Belle Hotel & Casino at Wikimedia Commons
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