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Sunday, November 30, 2014

Dover Downs Casino: On the brink

Dover Downs has serious problems:

• Regional casino competition has more than doubled in recent years.

• Banks demanded the casino's mortgage as collateral when executives recently refinanced $42 million in debt.

• Its stock price, which once stood at $19.64, closed at a record low of 72 cents this week, making it more difficult for casino leaders to raise capital.

• Its tax burden is the largest in the region at 43.5 percent.

After spending $283 million to build and later expand the casino over the past 18 years, its owners say they are fighting for their lives. And its fate has a direct impact on central Delaware and state taxpayers.

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3 comments:

Unknown said...

Place has no personality. Hosts are rude. Dealers are rude and look bored to death. Its like a funeral parlor. Why go....

Anonymous said...

At a 44% tax burden, plus a mortgage to pay down, how can they let even one person win anything? It must suck to go there...

Anonymous said...

the horse racing sucks!! no patrons in the clubhouse?? poker, likewise?? too much greed.