Magnolia Bluffs Casino

Update December 17, 2012

admin — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:27:16 +0000

MGC arrived this morning at 10:00 a.m. to finalize all of the testing on the floor and ensure we have all of the proper controls and signage throughout the property. They will watch our drop route and do an emergency evacuation today as well. From an operations aspect we placed all of our chairs throughout the casino and restaurant areas and full cleanup was started yesterday and will continue through opening. F&B burned off all of their equipment and tested many of the buffet items with our team of employees working at the casino the past two days. From an MGC standpoint, Surveillance is completed and all Cage Operations is signed off on other than the drop route which many departments are involved with –

All of our art work will be going up tomorrow (Monday) – with all of the dust we wanted to make sure we had the majority of our cleaning completed.

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Update: December 8. 2012

admin — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:22:20 +0000

Quick update from the last couple days –

We have two more small shipment of slots on Monday and Tuesday and we will complete our slot floor. The millwork crew is finishing installing the booths in the buffet with the fine dining booths arriving on Tuesday. At this point, all systems are a go and I will continue to update you as we hit certain milestones.

We did receive our Temp. Occupancy Certificate yesterday and finalizing a few minor items needed for our permanent certificate which should happen on Tuesday. We will be moving several of our employees from our downtown office to the casino this weekend and early next week.

Our orientation and customer service training will begin on Tuesday and will go from 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. through Friday at the Convention Center in town.

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Update: December 4, 2012

admin — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:36:52 +0000

Just a quick update from the last two days. We have 200 slots on the floor as of this morning with another 100 coming today. We’ve had 3 gaming agents here helping with the installation. The process is going very well at this point, Aristocrat set up all the brackets ahead of time for the slot system and 60 of the 200 games have our slot system installed already.

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Update: November 18, 2012

admin — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:41:15 +0000

The landscaping continued through the weekend and the property is really taking shape. The trees and shrubs really change the look and feel of the project. Crews are working through the weekend so they can take off for Thanksgiving. Paint continues today on the porte cochere’ and should be completed by day’s end, as far as the inside, other than touching up a few areas the painting is just about completed. Our brick pavers arrive tomorrow at 7:30 a.m. and installation will begin tomorrow – we have another delivery of kitchen equipment this week which should complete the bulk of our order. As cleanup begins inside the casino, the team continues to place and wire slot bases throughout the floor.

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Update: November 7, 2012

admin — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:43:35 +0000

Some updated pictures from the site yesterday –

It’s truly amazing the transformation that’s taking place. As you can see from the pictures the exterior is just about complete, we are installing the light poles in the parking garage and paving is just about done as well. We have another pour on Friday which will come under the porte cochere. The interior is becoming defined, the walls are being painted and tile has been installed in the restrooms and back of the house areas. As you will see from the pictures one of our “wow” factors which we have name the “flying donuts” are also being installed and will create a great atmosphere for our patrons. The interior walls of the fine dining restaurant are going up and you can really get a feel for what the guest experience will be in that area.

Dealer school is set and we are going through our internal process of paperwork with the gaming commission to start the school at the end of the month.

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Update: November 5, 2012

admin — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:33:17 +0000

The property is really coming together on the interior as you will see from the pictures. Tile work should be completed by the end of the week and all of our millwork is being installed as we speak. Casino carpet is about 50% completed and windows continue to be installed. Our second shipment of millwork that will include the main bar will arrive on Thursday with installation beginning on Friday this week.

Crews continue to pour sidewalks – at this point they are preparing the south side of the property with a pour expected this week. All of the interior surveillance cameras on the gaming floor are completed and crews are working on the exterior/parking lot and building cameras.

Our Marketing, Director of Compliance and Cage Manager will be starting this week.

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Update: October 26, 2012

admin — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:32:32 +0000

At this point of the project, things are really changing on a daily basis. Tile work continues to move at a rapid pace and our paint crews are making tremendous progress on our restaurant and cage areas. As you will see from the pictures, surveillance cameras are being installed and low voltage/slot wire is being run under the raised floor. Windows are being installed on both the river and valet sides of the building and all of the louvers have been installed on both the north and south sides of the building.

Close to 80% of our kitchen equipment has arrived and crews will begin installing next week. Our IT and Surveillance servers are being set and wires run to various locations throughout the casino/back of the house areas. The raised gaming floor is about 85% completed and the team hopes to complete the floor by early next week.

We had our first week of gaming school which went very well – the potential dealers are very excited. Our Director of Surveillance started this week and our candidate for Internal Audit accepted our offer this week as well and will be giving her two week notice.

The City is amazing right now with all of the balloon and guests visiting for Balloon Race. I stopped by the Isle of Capri last night and it was packed with tourists and visitors – a totally different crowd than normal. I only wish we were open to take advantage of this event. However, we are meeting a lot of great people and visitors from in and around Natchez that are looking forward to our opening date. We did some advertising for the event and attending a lot of private parties and events — we are getting a lot of questions and people coming up to us about the property – very positive, people are very excited about us opening.

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Update: 10/11/12

admin — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:43:03 +0000

Crews continue to make great progress inside the building finishing up all of the dry wall. Additionally, we set most of the IT/Surveillance equipment and most of the wiring for our surveillance system is completed. Tile work continues to go very well – the team is in the middle of laying the tile in front of the cage area and work is completed in the kitchen and walk-in coolers. We received a shipment of windows today and the team will be installing those throughout the rest of this week/weekend. As you will see from the first picture, we received a sample of what our signage will look like throughout the exterior of our property. We had another major paving pour this morning which went very well and we have two more paving pours left to complete the paving on property.

We welcomed our F&B Director, Joey DeFazio this week as well as our Director of Human Resources Tonya Nelson – two great additions to our team!

Lastly, dealer school will begin on Monday and we have a great group of people going through class.

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Update: Wednesday, October 03, 2012

admin — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:07:45 +0000

Dealer school is set and we are going through our internal process of paperwork with the gaming commission to start the school at the end of the month.

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Some updated photos from today

admin — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:48:35 +0000

We have another paving pour tonight at 4:00 a.m. – after this pour, we will have one continuous road from the entrance to the parking deck. Crews continue to do very well on the interior walls as you can see from the pictures. Offices are completed, the kitchen wall covering is completed and the crew is working on the tile both in the kitchen and restrooms. The pain on the exterior walls is about ¾ completed and the exterior windows will be in next week.

The center bar concrete is poured and more importantly the grid on the ceiling is just about finished. You can really begin to see the definition and design of the interior as you will see from the pictures. Painting will begin next week and tile work will continue in other areas of the building.

The gaming commission meeting went very well – we were approved for our dealer school and we will have our orientation for dealers next Thursday (9/27) with school scheduled to start around October 14th.

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