Foxwoods owners reopen El San Juan Casino in Puerto Rico
El San Juan Casino in the hotel Fairmont El San Juan Puerto Rico is slated to reopen after media announcement Mashantucket Pequot tribe.
Casino reopening announcement
A Connecticut Native American tribe has informed the media of a press conference scheduled for next week to be held on Tuesday in the hotel's grand ballroom and will be available through Zoom. Tribal officials have given no further details regarding the announcement related to the reopening of a Puerto Rico hotel casino.
Situated in the Isla Verde beach area of San Juan, hotel Fairmont El San Juan was first opened in 1958 and according to public sources it was once one of the most popular holiday destinations. But after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017, a popular hotel was damaged and had to close.
Casino in a hotel with 388 rooms it was closed pre-hurricane and has remained closed since then while the hotel underwent refurbishment worth $ 65 million and after the joint efforts of the hotel and Puerto Rico Tourism Company (PRTC) has been re-opened in December 2017, earlier than initially anticipated.
The tribe that owns it Foxwoods Resort Casinos in Connecticut, it has tried several times to move beyond its native state over the years with casino projects in Philadelphia, California, Kansas and Massachusetts, but without success.
In 2016, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation announced it would donate funds and the Foxwoods brand to a casino facility in Biloxi, Mississippi, but the project never materialized.
Foxwoods Resort Casino
Foxwoods Resort Casino belonging to the tribe that won the award USA Today's Reader's Choice Award as the nation's top casino outside Las Vegas experienced a slowdown in the fiscal year ended September 30, 2020.
The casino closed operations in late March to contain the further spread of the virus and immediately put 1,200 union dealers and 4,000 other employees on leave, refusing to pay for unpaid leave.
Then, in May, Foxwoods announced it would stop paying sickness benefits to its employees on vacation and begin layoffs May 31.
Later in the month, the Mashantucket Pequot announced their intention to reopen their casino complex from June 1, despite opposition from Governor Lamont who described the idea as risky.
As a result of two and a half months of inactivity, Foxwoods Resort Casino saw net revenue drop by 31,6% year on year for fiscal 2020, despite the drastic measures the tribe has taken to keep costs to a minimum.