Suncity Group unexpectedly withdrew<\/a> its candidacy in May.<\/p>\nClairvest is no stranger to gaming. The private equity firm’s portfolio includes investments in New Jersey’s Meadowlands Race Track, Canada’s Grey Eagle Resort & Casino, Chilean Gaming Holdings, and business-to-business sports betting and iGaming provider FSB Technology.<\/p>\n
IR Plans<\/b><\/h2>\n
Japan’s central government has authorized three large-scale commercial casino resorts.<\/p>\n
Clairvest has formed a subsidiary — Clairvest Neem Ventures (CNV) — for its Japan objectives. CNV has partnered with Groupe Partouche, a French-headquartered casino and hospitality firm that has properties in France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Tunisia.<\/p>\n
CNV has proposed building its sprawling casino and entertainment resort complex at Marina City, located just south of downtown Wakayama. Clairvest says the resort’s theme will be “a land of wood and a land of water.”<\/strong><\/p>\nPromoting Wakayama’s natural elements, the IR blueprint includes 2,700 hotel rooms, a convention center capable of accommodating 3,000 attendees, and a massive casino floor measuring more than 400,000 square feet.<\/p>\n
By comparison, the largest casino in Las Vegas is at Wynn\/Encore, which measures just shy of 200,000 square feet.<\/p>\n
Central Government Bid<\/b><\/h2>\n
Wakayama Prefecture officials say much work needs to be done before the region takes its casino plan to Japan’s central government. Prefecture leaders say the project must assure that the casino spurs tourism to the region, generates jobs and new tax revenue, and provides overall benefits to the area’s economy.<\/p>\n
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Japan’s Casino Administration Committee will handle reviewing IR presentations<\/a> from interested prefectures, host cities, and their respective resort consortiums. With only three casino privileges available and four cities expected to submit bids, assuring that Wakayama’s scheme beats out at least one is of utmost importance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n“We will create an excellent Area Development Plan for an IR that will greatly contribute to the region’s development and make a contribution to the country’s tourism strategy for the application to be made to the central government by the deadline of April 28, 2022,” a Wakayama statement added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Wakayama Prefecture is formally moving forward with an integrated casino resort pitch from Toronto-based Clairvest Group. Known as the “Kingdom of Fruit” for its long claims of producing the most perfect mandarin, Wakayama officials are hoping its casino resort ambitions turn fruitful in the coming months and years. The prefecture and its namesake capital […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":180707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69069,33810],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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