Pleasure and Leisure Corporation is in advanced negotiations with two restaurant operators at The Edge, its £18m casino-led scheme in Great Yarmouth. The leisure operator said it hoped to release names on two of the six restaurants by the end of the month. Great Yarmouth is one of only eight large casino-led licenses to be awarded in the country. The Edge will be the first seaside casino to be built, with construction expected to get underway in autumn next year. Plans include a 45,000 sq ft casino, an eight screen Odeon cinema, 21,000 sq ft of restaurants and a 100-bed budget hotel. Karen Hawes of Hawes Price, development consultants on the scheme, said casinos were currently going through a tough time but it was currently in negotiations with a number of operators who had approached them following the license being awarded in April this year. Owner, Pleasure and Leisure Corporation, is one of the contenders. But she warned other developers bidding for a casino license:”We had to push Great Yarmouth council to get this process going. Nobody wants to be first and get it wrong, it’s a new thing and most don’t even know how to run a casino competition.” nadia.elghamry@estatesgazette.com
Pleasure and Leisure Corporation is in advanced negotiations with two restaurant operators at The Edge, its £18m casino-led scheme in Great Yarmouth. The leisure operator said it hoped to release names on two of the six restaurants by the end of the month. Great Yarmouth is one of only eight large casino-led licenses to be awarded in the country. The Edge will be the first seaside casino to be built, with construction expected to get underway in autumn next year. Plans include a 45,000 sq ft casino, an eight screen Odeon cinema, 21,000 sq ft of restaurants and a 100-bed budget hotel. Karen Hawes of Hawes Price, development consultants on the scheme, said casinos were currently going through a tough time but it was currently in negotiations with a number of operators who had approached them following the license being awarded in April this year. Owner, Pleasure and Leisure Corporation, is one of the contenders. But she warned other developers bidding for a casino license:”We had to push Great Yarmouth council to get this process going. Nobody wants to be first and get it wrong, it’s a new thing and most don’t even know how to run a casino competition.” nadia.elghamry@estatesgazette.com
