Both will lose some market share to MGM unfortunately. It will certainly be a fight between the Shoe and Live! for the mid-Maryland area.

Live! has, well, Arundel Mills - a glorified mall. Also, as the harbor area revitalizes, that will bring more people to the area. Baltimore has to pro teams that draw people to the harbor area which will generate foot traffic to the casino. I think they will take market share away from Live! because they are located in Baltimore. it is also directly off of I-95 and a bit easier to get to than Arundel Mills. Of course Maryland Live has no hotel, but the investment in that facility wasn't nearly as much as what MGM is investing.īetween the Shoe and Live! the Shoe has the better location.

Therefore, I think the experience will be better at MGM.

Usually a casino resort is 50% hotel and 50% everything else, but MGM decided to focus 70% on the rest of the facility by having a smaller hotel as so not to compete with the numerous hotel rooms at NH. $1.2 billion on a facility that has a small hotel is telling how much attention was given to the rest of the facility. MGM went all out on the National Harbor casino. People coming to the Washington Region would more likely go to MGM because of familiarity than they would Arundel Mills or the Horseshoe in Baltimore. MGM has a worldwide brand along with worldwide patrons. MGM is located by one of the largest convention centers on the east coast. DC's tourist dollars are larger than Baltimore's and certainly more than Arundel Mills. It is in a suburb of one of the wealthiest metros in the country and one of the most visited. No doubt about it, MGM has the best location out of the three. It is being billed as the best casino outside of Las Vegas. What do you all predict will happen? Do you think the other two sites will suffer? Do you think realistically all 3 can survive? Do you see a situation of all 3 hurts one another? I am not big in the casino business but I am curious what others believe will be the long term effect on each of these facilities.įirst off, a lot of analysts believe that MGM will be a big deal. So I have been reading that Horseshoe Casino in Baltimore has been struggling to meet it's projections since it has opened and so this got me thinking about what will happen when MGM opens their site.

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