Inside Asian Gaming

INSIDE ASIAN GAMING SEPTEMBER 2018 14 AUSTRALIA’S STAR ENTERTAINMENT Group has lodged a development application with the NSW Department of Planning for its new AU$500 million Ritz-Carlton hotel tower in Sydney. The proposed hotel and residences tower at The Star Sydney complex, together with construction in a connected ribbon development, will include new resort amenities, significantly more food and beverage offerings and a neighborhood center, the company said. The Star is partnering with Hong Kong-based Chow Tai Fook and Far East Consortium on the project. Acclaimed architects FJMT, led by Richard Francis-Jones, won a Design Excellence Competition in December 2016 to secure the rights to design the tower. The Ritz-Carlton hotel will include a Sky Lobby complete with a publicly-accessible signature restaurant with harbor views and a rooftop terrace. The new development will sit wholly within the existing footprint of The Star Sydney and bring further facilities to the burgeoning Pyrmont-Darling Harbour- Barangaroo precinct. It will also support the new Sydney International Convention Centre – home to the Australasian Gaming Expo – and help connect Darling Harbour to the Sydney Fish Market and The Bays Precinct. STAR LODGES DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION FOR SYDNEY RITZ-CARLTON HOTEL TOWER Macau’s Paradise Entertainment Limited has entered into a licensing agreement that will see it license the rights to certain non-live multi-game intellectual property in Macau to global automated gaming table supplier Interblock. Under the terms of the license agreement, Paradise – which also supplies the popular live multi-game systems to Macau’s casinos – has granted Interblock the non-exclusive Paradise Entertainment inks Macau IP deal with Interblock rights in the relevant IP in Macau. “Interblock is a leading developer and supplier of multi-player gaming devices in the United States, Canada, Asia, Australia and Europe,” said Paradise Chairman and Managing Director Jay Chun. “Leveraging Interblock’s extensive sales and distribution network, proven track record and commercialization expertise, we are confident that our cooperation will significantly boost the sales of licensed gaming machines and accelerate the penetration of non-live multi-game in Macau. “We look forward to deepening collaboration with Interblock by exploring our other gaming products such as slot machines and other upcoming products with an aim to further enlarge our market share in the electronic gaming equipment market.”