Slots authorized for Vancouver - 2004-01-23
In a 1 a.m. 5-4 vote yesterday, Vancouver council, authorized a new casino that for the first time in the city's history will permit slot machines. This has made Grand Casino owner Len Libin "a pretty happy camper."
The decision more or less allows Grand Casino and Royal Diamond to convert Exhibition Hall at the Plaza of Nations into a 70,000-square-foot, three-level casino housing 600 slot machines.
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