Mississippi coast casinos roll out best year since 2008
Published 12:00 pm Thursday, January 21, 2016
- Mississippi coast casino total revenue rises slightly in 2014
D’IBERVILLE, Miss. (AP) — The Dec. 9 opening of Scarlet Pearl Casino in D’Iberville helped push the Mississippi coast casinos to $1.14 billion in gross casino revenue for the year, squeaking revenue past the 2009 total of $1.11 billion.
It was a 6 percent annual improvement over the $1.08 billion won in 2014. That’s according to a report Wednesday from the state Department of Revenue.
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The Sun Herald reports (http://bit.ly/1T7WlfR) the river casinos had their worst year since 1994, when the first casinos opened in that area. For the second year, revenues slipped below $1 billion to $954.0 million. That is 3.5 percent below 2014.
The Coast’s strong performance helped raise Mississippi’s total casino revenue to $2.07 billion, or 1.4 percent above 2014 levels.
Twice in 2015, the Coast casino revenue topped $100 million, the first time that had happened since 2009.
