Larry Gregory
Larry Gregory
definitely fire
This will definitely put the fire under their feet,
added area casinos ghost hotels region scholars-and-scholarship twelve
This region twelve years ago was a ghost town, ... The casinos and hotels have revitalized the area and added 14,000 jobs.
anybody ask coming difficult house time work
We didn't feel like we could penalize anybody for coming back to ask for more time to get their house in order. It's been very difficult to work under these conditions.
commit eye sit
We just kind of want to sit down eye to eye and look at them and see if they are gong to commit to rebuilding. They have told us verbally, all of them, that they are going to rebuild.
associated casinos employees
We've got about 4,500 employees associated with those casinos right now.
challenge companies cover insurance operate
The other challenge is that insurance companies won't want to cover them if they operate on water,
address biggest coming issue policy speeding
That will be the biggest policy issue the Legislature has had to address in a long time, ... and it's coming like a speeding bullet. Legislators are going to have to make that determination.
definitely discussion fire issue legislator minds next policy public question
I think that will be a public policy question that will be on the minds of every legislator when they come in for the next session. That discussion will be the No. 1 issue in this legislative cycle. This will definitely put the fire under their feet.
competition early fierce
I think there will be some attrition, ... Competition is going to be fierce in the early days.
amount difficult investing limited money sell
it is going to be very difficult to sell to shareholders investing that amount of money in jurisdictions limited to only water.
meetings taking
Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,
casinos due interest move
We've always had our casinos on barges. They've always had to be over water. Due to the hurricane, there was a lot of interest to move our casinos on land.
atlantic close exceeding reaching
We're going to come very close to reaching or exceeding Atlantic City. These aren't going to be cut-and-paste barges like we had in the past,
absolutely clear developers message numbers region sending street wall
Those numbers are absolutely unbelievable. The numbers are sending a clear message to Wall Street and other developers that the region is rebounding.