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25-555: The Gold Dust West Carson City (formerly the Pinon Plaza Hotel Casino) is a casino hotel located on Hwy 50 in Carson City, Nevada . The Gold Dust West contains 17,600 square feet (1,640 m) of gaming space, with table games, video poker machines, and slots. The Gold Dust West hotel has 142 rooms. The facility also has a bowling center, snack bar, a heated outdoor swimming pool, and a large hot tub (open in

50-502: A swimming pool , health club , and on-site entertainment. Many casino hotels in popular destinations, operate as resort hotels with additional services such as upscale lodgings, ballrooms, and large conference facilities, in which case they may be called integrated resort . An integrated resort ( IR ) is a major resort property that includes a hotel with a casino , together with convention facilities, entertainment shows, theme parks , luxury retail and fine dining . The term

75-567: A 147 m (482 ft) observation tower, a marine theme park , and a chapel. The complex is also expected to include a school, a hospital, office buildings, and condominiums. The whole development is expected to cost ₱ 30 billion. Standing on the old San Pedro Calungsod Template Grounds, where the final mass of the 2016 International Eucharistic Congress was held, is South Coast City. A 26 hectares (64 acres) mixed-used project developed by SM Prime and Ayala Land , it launched in 2020, and will include mixed-used commercial blocks, an arena ,

100-524: A convention center , a 1.1 hectares (2.7 acres) central park, residential buildings, and office buildings, among others. The whole reclamation area is served by a two-way, six-lane divided road called the Cebu South Coastal Road (CSCR) which is a national road. The CSCR, which traverses the whole of SRP and connects Talisay to downtown Cebu City, also serves as an alternative road to the congested Natalio Bacalso Avenue . A large part of

125-848: A leaf from Singapore's book". In 2007, the Philippine Amusement & Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) opened Entertainment City by the Manila Bay to four integrated resorts. In 2022, Universal Hotels & Resorts of the Gokongwei-led JG Summit Holdings conglomerate opened the Nustar Resort and Casino integrated resort in Kawit Island of the South Road Properties reclamation area of Cebu City . Cinnamon Life Colombo

150-524: A mall by the sea, named Il Corso (means "The Course" in Italian). Nustar Resort & Casino, formerly known as Isla dela Victoria ( Spanish for Victory's Island ), is a resort and casino facility located on the site of the former Kawit Island (now Kawit Point). The development has a total land area of 8 hectares (20 acres). The project, which is expected to include restaurants, bars, a mall, convention center, casino, park, theater, and at least three hotels,

175-783: Is Sri Lanka's first integrated resort. The resort is consists of an 800 room hotel, 47-storeyed resident tower and convention center with 5,000 seating capacity. Integrated resorts are common on the Las Vegas Strip and in Atlantic City, New Jersey . Casino hotels can be significant employers in an area; in 2009 in Atlantic City, Local 54 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union represented 22,000 casino hotel workers. South Road Properties The South Road Properties (SRP), also known as

200-508: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a building or structure in Nevada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Casino hotel The casino may offer common forms of gambling including slot machines , table games , and sports betting . The hotel, nearby or directly connected to the casino, provides lodging and may include other popular services such as food and beverages, valet parking ,

225-686: Is a joint venture of the Cebu City government and Universal Hotels and Resorts Inc., a subsidiary of JG Summit Holdings . Some parts of the project, including the casino, had a soft opening in May 2022. SRP's most popular development is the SM Seaside complex. The whole development takes up a total of 30 hectares (74 acres). The complex features the SM Seaside mall (the biggest shopping mall in Cebu),

250-628: Is a planned mass transit system for Cebu City. Once completed, it is expected to serve the SRP, and allows for a connection all the way to the Cebu IT Park . The Cebu BRT is also expected to become the first operational bus rapid transit project in the Philippines upon completion. The SRP Roundabout or the SRP Rotunda is a proposed four-lane rotunda . It is to be located at the junction of

275-507: Is largely Singaporean . Earlier IR licenses were awarded to Marina Bay Sands and Resorts World Sentosa , which both began operations in early 2010, and were by 2013 the most profitable casinos in the world. Since then, the term has been adopted by the hospitality industry for global use. In August 2018, the Queensland government was set to invite investors to register their interest in developing an Integrated Resort Development in

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300-538: Is the third bridge linking mainland Cebu and Mactan Island. It is the first toll expressway in the Philippines outside Luzon and, at 8.9 kilometres (5.5 mi) long, is also the longest sea-crossing bridge in the Philippines, surpassing the San Juanico Bridge . It opened in April 2022. The SRP Tunnel is a two-way, four-lane 0.97 kilometres (0.60 mi) dual carriageway , and is the first road tunnel in

325-669: The American rule ). In 1991, the project was approved as part of the Metro Cebu Development Project, a study financed by the Japanese Official Development Assistance fund. It was originally envisioned to house light industries but eventually evolved into a mixed-used development. The project started civil works in 1997, and was financed by a ¥12.315 billion (equivalent to about ₱5 billion in 2022) loan provided by

350-570: The Japan Bank for International Cooperation . Works finished in 2004. City di Mare (formerly "Citta de Mare", roughly translates into "city by the sea" in Italian ) is a mixed-used development in SRP, owned and developed by Filinvest . The whole area takes up a total of 48 hectares (120 acres), the largest development in SRP by land area. The whole development is expected to consist of mid-to-high-rise residential buildings, office buildings, and

375-729: The Philippines . It began construction in 2006 and was inaugurated in 2010. Much like the SRP, it was financed by a loan from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation . The tunnel goes under Plaza Independencia and Fort San Pedro and connects the SRP to the North Reclamation Area through the Sergio "Serging" Osmeña Jr. Boulevard. It is a joint construction of the Cebu City and Japan governments. As of August 2024, CCTO and ZLREJ Trading and Construction reported that

400-504: The South Reclamation Project , is a 300 ha (740 acres) reclamation area in Cebu City , Philippines . The area, which is reclaimed from Mactan Channel , is located off the coast of the southern district of Cebu City, near Barangays Mambaling, Inayawan, and Pasil. It spans from the shore of mainland Cebu to Kawit Point (formerly Kawit Island). An island-type reclaimed area, it is connected with mainland Cebu by

425-606: The Cebu South Coastal Road (from which the area's name is derived from) and the Mambaling Access Road (officially the F. Vestil Street). Through the Cebu–Cordova Link Expressway , the SRP is also connected by land to Cordova and the island of Mactan . In the late 1980s, then- Cebu City mayor Tomas Osmeña proposed reclaiming land from Mactan Channel, particularly the sea between mainland Cebu City and Kawit Island (a former quarantine facility during

450-400: The Cebu South Coastal Road and F. Vestil Street. The proposal of the project was approved by the Cebu City council on August 18, 2021. The rotunda project was proposed as to ease the traffic situation in the area and for a shorter route for motorists bound for Mambaling, instead of taking a U-Turn slot under the SRP viaduct. Construction was expected to be completed by 2023, but as of 2024, there

475-785: The Gold Coast. This comes after a proposed development on the Gold Coast Spit ended on 1 August 2017. In June 2021, the Integrated Resort Development Act 1987 was updated. The City of Dreams Mediterranean , developed by the Integrated Casino Resorts Cyprus Consortium, is the first integrated resort in Cyprus, and all of Europe. It was expected to launch in 2021, and is currently open. On 20 July 2018,

500-571: The Japanese Diet passed a bill allowing the establishment of casinos in three Japanese cities. Under the Integrated Resort Implementation Law, "the casinos will be embedded in family-friendly resorts, partly in a bid to counter their seedy image"; customers are limited to three visits a week; and locals will have to pay an entrance charge of ¥6000, while foreigners can enter for free. The bill "clearly takes

525-480: The SRP with Barangay Mambaling in mainland Cebu City. The road starts from the intersection with Natalio Bacalso Avenue under the Mambaling Flyover, which shortly leads up to an intersection with L. Gabuya Street and C. Padilla Street before terminating at the Cebu South Coastal Road. The road, which was previously unnamed, was and is also informally known as the Mambaling Access Road. On January 15, 2015,

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550-649: The boulevard has the Cebu Strait on its eastern side and a large array of developments on its western side. The reclamation area is connected to downtown Cebu City through the Cebu City South Coastal Road Viaduct along the Cebu South Coastal Road. The entire road forms part of National Route 840 ( N840 ) for the Philippine highway network . The F. Vestil Street is a 1.2 km (0.75 mi) long, four-lane road which connects

575-408: The road was formally named as F. Vestil Street, in honor of Francisco Vestil , a Mambaling native who was the flagbearer for the Philippines at the 1948 Summer Olympics and was a member of the Philippine basketball team that competed then. The Cebu–Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEX) connects the municipality of Cordova on Mactan Island and Cebu City through the Cebu South Coastal Road. The CCLEX

600-543: The southbound lane’s light source repair is almost finished and the tunnel rehabilitation is expected to be completed before the Sinulog 2025. As the largest remaining developable plot of land in Cebu City, the South Road Properties is being primed for future growth. With this, several infrastructure projects are also set in place to help facilitate this projected growth. The Cebu Bus Rapid Transit System

625-804: The summer). Like the Gold Dust West Casino in Reno, Nevada , this facility is owned and operated by Jacobs Entertainment, Inc. The Pinon Plaza was owned by Clark Russell, who had owned the Carson Station Hotel Casino in Carson City. Russell operated a shuttle bus system that ran for several years between the Carson Station and the Pinon Plaza. This article relating to a casino or gaming company

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