LEEDS AND BATH opportunity
the Leeds opening was in late January 2017, while Bath opened recently in May 2018. Many of you reading this will have been involved in casino openings before, and I’d had considerable experience, being involved in 5 Grosvenor relocations, as well as two new openings, and more recently and relevantly having been responsible for opening the new (and very successful) independent Coral Island Casino in Blackpool. While no two openings are the same, I’ve employed the same basic philosophy in all of them – preparation is great, but the ability to pivot and react to changing circumstances is critical. That’s easy to say, of course, although during the lead up to opening there’s not much choice, fit-outs never go according to plan and while our main contractor on both jobs, the excellent Phelan Construction were great to work with, curveballs fly in from left and right and the trick is to work with them and not be too fixated on one plan. The early stages of a new casino project obviously start with determining what type of casino you want to be, and while the correct answer to the standard question “who is
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