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MANCHESTER, ENGLAND-Manchester has won the right to host Britain's first regional casino. A five-person Casino Advisory Panel picked the city in northwest England from a list of seven cities that also included Blackpool, London and Glasgow.
The casino complex will be located on the east side of the city, around facilities built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Preliminary development plans call for a 54,000-sf casino with 1,250 slot machines.
Manchester city officials are expected to solicit development and management proposals from major casino operators. Published reports out of the UK have listed a group led by Kerzner International as the likely partner.
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