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- — Northern Virginia’s first licensed gambling operation is opening up to the general public. Rosie’s Gaming Emporium in Dumfries in southern Prince William County is opening.
- It is the end of an era for not only downtown Vancouver’s waterfront casino but one of the remaining buildings of the Plaza of Nations. Edgewater Casino at False Creek will close on the morning of September 29, the same day the new Parq Vancouver casino hotel resort opens across the street on the west side of BC Place Stadium.
BCLC in collaboration with our casino service providers submitted our heath and safety plans to re-open the B.C casino industry to WorkSafeBC and the Provincial Health Officer. When we have approval to re-open gambling facilities, we will do so with appropriate measures in place to support the health and wellbeing of our players, employees and communities.
For example, this may mean reconfiguring seating at slot machines and table games to ensure a two-metre distance between players to support physical-distancing at B.C. casinos. Physical barriers (such as plexi-glass) will be installed where this is not possible or where casino employees, such as dealers or cash-cage staff, must interact with players. Casino employees will monitor capacity to support physical distancing at all times.
Frequent hand sanitization will be recommended. In fact, BCLC and our casino service providers will provide free hand sanitizer to players and refill stations will be located throughout our facilities.
Ongoing sanitization of touch points and gambling equipment, such as chips, will occur. To minimize touch points, we are also planning that the types of table games offered will change to allow only games in which cards can be dealt face up, and that players will not be permitted to touch cards.
Casino staff will be required to complete detailed training about enhanced sanitation requirements and new physical-distancing protocols.
More than six weeks after they were ordered to close due to the pandemic, B.C. casinos will be staying dark for the foreseeable future.
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Thursday casinos would be “last on my list to consider for reopening at this point.”
Because casinos are closed indoor environments frequented by seniors and others vulnerable to the virus, she said their reopening would be considered “further down the line.”
“I would have to be convinced that there is a valid reason and a safe way to do it,” she said.
“It is certainly not in the first phase of what I’m considering, or what we are considering in terms of how we get things moving again in our economy and in our social structures.”
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B.C. casinos contribute considerably to the budgets of their host local governments, which are entitled to 10 per cent of a casino’s net gaming revenue. The City of Penticton, for example, is expecting to lose out on $2 million in casino revenues this year.
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