The back parking lot of the Treasure Chest Casino was full on Sunday. But the casino wasn’t full of patrons, it was full of workers.
Inside the floating casino workers were furiously outfitting the interior to reopen in less than 16-hours.
Contractors were cutting and installing Plexiglas separators at casino cages and cashier stations, moving machines and tables and reconfiguring interior space to comply with social distancing mandates so they can re-open.
Reopening casinos is another milestone in Phase One restart of the state economy as we move out from under stay-at-home orders.
Casinos which have met the requirements of social distancing mandates from the state government are being allowed to re-open to the public.
So while New Orleans land-based casinos and poker machine rooms remain shuttered, until the Mayor allows them to reopen, four major casinos in Jefferson Parish were working on Sunday to get their facilities up to the new standards of operation.
Opening Monday are the Boomtown New Orleans on the Harvey Canal, Treasure Chest Casino at Pontchartrain Center in Kenner, and two truck stop casinos, Westbank Truck Stop in Westwego and Casino 90 West in Avondale are opening for business at 8am.
Other small casino and poker/slot machine houses will likely be opening as well if they have been certified as compliant by the Gaming Control Board of Louisiana.
