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Argentina – Work begins on large scale casino in Río Negro

Argentine operator Crown Casino has begun the construction of the Sol del Río project in the capital of the province of Río Negro Viedma. Work will be developed in stages while the traffic will be reduced around the area.

After the public hearing was held in February, the Municipality demanded several changes to the area including the paving of all of all the lanes and roads that surround the site.

Crown investirà circa 450 milioni di dollari nel nuovo complesso che comprenderà un casinò, un hotel da 54 camere, un'area ristorazione, un centro congressi per oltre 500 persone, un centro commerciale e un casinò, che secondo gli architetti del nuovo hotel , occuperà solo il 6% del nuovo complesso. In cambio, Crown ha chiesto e ottenuto una proroga di 10 anni delle sue licenze per le sue attività a Las Grutas, El Cóndor, Viedma, Cipolletti, Roca, Choele Choel e Catriel. I lavori di costruzione dovrebbero essere completati entro tre anni.

In what will be a major expansion in the area Crown signed a contract in December 2017 with local football club Sol de Mayo for the transfer of two hectares of waterfront land. Members of the club had approved the offer in May 2016. In return, the club will receive a $114m facelift including work on the football grounds, the swimming pool as well as other infrastructure works (which will be part of the total $450m budget for the new complex). The current casino in the provincial capital has until now operated in a rented property. The licence will run until 2042.

The province aims to increase the tax revenue from gaming by improved control and monitoring over slots in the province. Earlier this month private independent gaming testing laboratory BMM testlabs trained 17 more gaming inspectors on behalf of the Rio Negro Lottery.

Luis Ayestarán, the auditor of the Lottery of Río Negro, emphasised that trained inspectors would raise income for the state and would make “the inspection process in the gaming halls of the province more transparent”.