IP Casino Dry Dock

摘要

The Imperial Palace Casino was built on the Back Bay in Biloxi, Miss., in the late 1990s. It was a permanently moored, three-floor floating vessel that sat upon nine hopper barges, which were welded together. However, after 2005, when Hurricane Katrina prompted state legislators to reverse a law that required all casinos to float on water, the IP Casino sought a site on dry land. Boyd Gaming Corp., owner of the IP Casino, put out a request for design-competition proposals in order to dry-dock its casino permanently without interrupting its 24/7 operations.