City Center Rosario puts Argentina in the highest level of gaming operations in Latin America

Tumultuous and stunning. So was the opening of City Center Rosario, the biggest and most impressive casino in Latin America. With more than 2000 slots, 80 table games and a structure in the style of the most important casinos in Las Vegas Strip,this entertainment center amazed visitors, showing that, from its opening, there is a new quality standard for any other gambling venue in the region.

Latin American TV star Susana Giménez was in charge of throwing the first ball in the roulette, that turned out to hit black, the 22, and guests then visited the mega complex, valuated by Casino Club authorities in us$ 270 million of investment, which will have 1600 employees.

"It is a great investment, which generated many jobs in its construction, and so now in its operation, in a difficult moment for the country and in a zone of the city that needed a project of this kind,” remarked the council of the City of Rosario, Miguel Lifschitz.

The visual impact of the gambling hall is immediate and  reminds to the new casinos in Las Vegas or Macau, in which the lights, the machines and the traditional sound of a casino are mixed with soft textures, shadows and a architectonical development very luxurious and imposive. "This casino is absolutely fabulous,” commented Susana Giménez when visiting the venue.

The diva had headed the ribbon cut at 20.25, among a myriad of cameras and flashes. The, there was a visit around the 135,000 covered sqm, the three levels with machines and gambling tabes, the galleries, the exclusive stores, the five-star hotel and the convention center, where it was held the central act with the speeched of the authorities.

Mayor Lifschitz, head of the Lottery of Santa Fe, Sergio Beccari, and President of the City Center were the main speakers. "This is no doubt a very good novelty for the city", said Lifschitz, the main political figure in the event, together with regional Ministers of Economy, Angel Sciara, of Health, Miguel Cappiello, of Public Services, Antonio Ciancio and Social Development, Pablo Farías.

"This project had generated the opposition of many sectors due to its location. Many people wanted it near the river, in the North zone, or in Parque Independencia. We thought it was important to boost the South zone and the truth is that we are satisfied with the bet", added the mayor. He then admitted that "there are still some complementary developments that have to be completed, in order to reduce the impact that an initiative of this characteristics may involve for the logic of the neighbourhood, but the first balance is very positive.”

Among the executives of the sector that were present in the event, it counted with the presence of the main regional leaders of firms such as IGT, Bally, Aristocrat, Atronic, Novomatic, Octavian, Konami, Suzo Happ Group, Formanova, Gaming Signs, TCS John Huxley, Next Play, Permaquim, Casino Solutions, among others, as well as SAGSE organizers. All of them, to a greater or lesser extent, agreed that this development highlights the casino operation not only in Argentina, but also in all Latin America, because, up to the opening of this complex, there haven’t been gambling venues with the Luxury and the impressive level of development offered last week in the inauguration of the casino in Rosario.