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Originally Posted by mani
yeah gotta b surprised about manchester - yeah fair enough its a down lit area but i thought bpool wud've got it myself - mdome wud've been a good choice too
but i can see their logic of it being in manc and not yet another thing in london
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Ok .. I quote from a professional opinion of correspondence I have received and comments as follows:-
'It would apper that Blackpool's bid was not that good, it states that Blackpool would benefit from significant regeneration benefits but only in physical terms. It would appear that they had not developed the case for improving or assessing the potential social benefits/issues that could arise and focused only on the physical/aesthetic improvements. Manchester put together the best programme for maximising the social/community benefits of the casino proposals i.e. links to sport, leisure, training/employment, community infrastructure regeneration, etc.
In addition, a key requirement of the bid was to make provision that the potential impacts of the super casino could be monitored and assessed. The nature of the use of the Blackpool bid meant that the benefits arising would be hard to quantify i.e. Large influence on visitors from outside Blackpool, cashflows transient to private industry, heavy burden on government provided infrastructure. The success of the casino in Blackpool would be near impossible to assess, aside from the improvements to the physical environment. Manchester made provision for all of this in their bid.
Blackpool also had the problem that the bidding system only allowed them to bid for either the Super Casino, one of the eight large casinos, or one of the eight small casinos, meaning that because it didn't win the Super Casino, it was unable to propose a scheme for the large or small casinos .. leaving them ultimately with nothing !!'
Don't think all will be lost for Blackpool though, but does seem sense Manchester got it.
Myself, like Jambutty can't see why we really need a Super Casino, particularly
but gambling goes on every day in the U.K., doesn't it, so we might as well do it in style.
Well done Manchester .. sooner here than down south....
