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Echo, Crown, Chow Tai Fook Make Brisbane Short List

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Wed 28 May 2014 at 02:24
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The government of Queensland has named Brisbane incumbent Echo Entertainment, rival Crown Resorts and two Chinese companies to its short list for a casino license in the capital of the Australian state.

Jewelry giant Chow Tai Fook and Shanghai-based property consortium Greenland Investment complete the list, which was announced on the heels of the state’s tentative approval of two other Chinese investment groups—Aquis at the Great Barrier Reef and ASF Consortium—for megaresorts totaling more than A$15 billion and located, respectively, on the state’s far northern coast near Cairns and in the popular tourist destination of Gold Coast on the Pacific Ocean, where Sydney-based Echo has long been the sole operator. Echo also runs the only casino in Brisbane.

Queensland will award three licenses in all as part of the largest expansion of casino gaming in Australian history. Reeling from falling resource exports and deeply in debt, the state is banking on the Asian tourism boom to revive its fortunes, led by China’s increasingly wealthy and gambling-obsessed millions.

“These projects have the potential to create thousands of new jobs in these two key tourism centers,” said Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney. “We promised to grow the construction and tourism sectors of the Queensland economy and today’s announcement paves the way for this to happen.”

Plans for the $8.15 billion Aquis, the brainchild of Hong Kong financier Tony Fung, include nine hotels, a 25,000-seat stadium, a golf course and a lake and reef lagoon. If it clears environmental and other approvals it will provide 3,700 construction jobs and 10,000 permanent jobs at opening, according to Aquis.

ASF’s Broadwater Marine project is pegged at $7.5 billion and likewise envisions an expansive mixed-use offering comprising hotels and luxury residences with the addition of a marina and a full-scale cruise ship terminal. The project forecasts 1,300 construction jobs and employment for more than 10,000 resort workers.

Sydney-based, ASX-listed ASF Group (AFA) has holdings in minerals, commodities, trading, financial services and real estate in Australia and China. Its backers in Gold Coast include China State Construction Engineering Corp. and CCCC Guangzhou Dredging Co.

The project must also obtain planning and environmental approvals to move forward.

The Brisbane finalists have been asked to detail how they will transform an area known as Queen’s Wharf in the city’s central government and business district.

Echo, which operates The Star casino and hotel in Sydney, previously had offered to spend upwards of $1 billion to preserve its Brisbane monopoly in the face of an aggressive lobbying campaign by James Packer’s Crown. Echo wants permission to develop a new resort to replace its Treasury Casino and Hotel, which is housed in an aging building that is historically listed and cannot be expanded.

The company’s Jupiters Hotel and Casino in Gold Coast is similarly in need of reinvestment and expansion.

Crown is also challenging Echo’s casino monopoly in New South Wales with a multibillion-dollar luxury resort slated to open in 2019 not far from The Star on Sydney’s Darling Harbour.

Crown’s Melbourne flagship is the country’s leading destination for high-rolling gamblers and benefits from the company’s 33% stake in Macau operator Melco Crown Entertainment. Crown also operates a casino in Perth in Western Australia and is pursuing a resort casino in Sri Lanka’s capital of Colombo.

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