{"id":233678,"date":"2022-09-23T17:26:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T22:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=233678"},"modified":"2022-09-26T14:04:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T19:04:25","slug":"maverick-gaming-cashes-in-washington-states-macau-casino-for-22m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/maverick-gaming-cashes-in-washington-states-macau-casino-for-22m\/","title":{"rendered":"Maverick Gaming Cashes in Washington State\u2019s Macau Casino for $22M"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maverick Gaming has sold its Macau Casino in Lakewood, Wash., for $22.1 million, according to county records. The buyer was Chicago-based real estate investment firm Oak Street Real Estate Capital. The transaction was recorded on Sept. 20 but took place on Sept. 2.<\/p>\n

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Maverick Gaming sold its Macau Casino in Lakewood, Wash. this month to a company specializing in retail sale-leasebacks. (Image: news.theregistryps.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Macau is a 10,747-square-foot property on 2.8 acres at 9811 S. Tacoma Way. Maverick more than tripled its money on the deal, having purchased the casino in 2019 for $6 million.<\/p>\n

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Maverick \u2013 headquartered in Kirkland, Wash. \u2013 currently operates 18 card rooms in Washington State, 10 in Northern Nevada and four in Colorado. It was founded in 2017 by Eric Persson, former Global Senior Vice President of Slots at Las Vegas Sands, and Justin Beltram, former Vice President of Slots at Bellagio and Marina Bay Sands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Maverick has been embroiled in a legal battle over sports betting in its home state since it filed a federal lawsuit<\/a> in January. That action challenged an alleged sports betting monopoly held by tribal casino operators. Its suit was temporarily halted in March<\/a>\u00a0after Maverick and Washington asked that the state be dropped from the suit, rendering the issue exclusively federal.<\/p>\n

Resuscitating Business<\/h2>\n

Oak Street Real Estate, founded in 2009 by\u00a0Mark Zahr,<\/strong> specializes in sale-leasebacks. It acquires real estate from struggling retailers, then rents it back to them. According to Reuters,<\/em> it has completed such deals with Bed Bath & Beyond and Big Lots and last month bid $1.5-2 billion to acquire an unknown number of Kohl\u2019s Corp.\u2019s 1,100 department stores.<\/p>\n

Oak Street was purchased by Blue Owl Capital Inc. last year in a deal estimated by Bloomberg News<\/em> to be worth $1.6 billion.<\/p>\n

Hot Water Under the Bridge<\/b><\/h2>\n

Maverick acquired the Macau after its previous owners were stripped of their gaming licenses<\/a> following a three-year investigation into alleged loansharking and money laundering by the Washington State Gambling Commission.<\/p>\n

The commission and the Tukwila Police Department opened their investigation in 2016 after complaints were made about illegal activities at the Macau Casino’s Lakewood and Tukwila properties. According to a commission statement, a publicly unnamed 45-year-old female employee regularly brought large bags containing $20 bills into the casinos. She allegedly gave the money to suspected co-conspirators to buy-in on games.<\/p>\n

They would play for a brief period of time before cashing out for $100 bills,\u201d<\/strong> the commission\u2019s statement added. \u201cThe suspect also loaned cash and chips to casino patrons and charged exorbitant interest rates on the loans.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The previous owners agreed to compensate the commission of $1.25 million to cover the investigation costs, Casino.org<\/em> reported at the time. The scheme led to the casino’s alleged laundering of $1.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maverick Gaming has sold its Macau Casino in Lakewood, Wash., for $22.1 million, according to county records. The buyer was Chicago-based real estate investment firm Oak Street Real Estate Capital. The transaction was recorded on Sept. 20 but took place on Sept. 2. The Macau is a 10,747-square-foot property on 2.8 acres at 9811 S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":233681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[13363,82935,82933,82934,13630],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMaverick Gaming Cashes in Washington State\u2019s Macau Casino for $22M - Casino.org<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Maverick Gaming has sold its Macau Casino in Lakewood, Wash., for $22.1 million, according to county records. 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