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Genting for Birmingham - Casino News

Date: 16/07/2008

Partner for NEC

Genting Stanley is to partner the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham, UK, in a proposed £90 million project to develop a leisure and entertainment complex, including a large casino, at the NEC.

The development is the first phase of a larger plan for the NEC site to deliver a range of leisure and business facilities to compliment the current exhibition halls and arena.

Details are being developed to put a spa, hotel, high quality bars and restaurants and a casino, along with other leisure attractions, are proposed for the complex. The casino is expected to occupy less than ten percent of the floor area.

The NEC Group has long argued that the NEC represents a very capable and unique site. According to the NEC, the proposal by Genting Stanley is set to create in the region of 1,000 jobs, to transform the NEC's offer, and in doing so, provide a platform to allow the NEC to compete in a highly competative global venue market, as well as to grow the £2 billion economic impact and almost 29,000 jobs that Group contributes each year to its region's economy.