'It's a real gem in our city and it offers a safe, regulated environment. Lots of entertainment happens at the casino.
He said having a viable casino is important. 'So certainly that wouldn't have been sustainable.' 'In our peak year, which would have been in the mid-2000s, we probably did about $75 million in revenue, and then over time it decreased by 30 per cent,' said Bob MacKinnon, the CEO of Nova Scotia Gaming, the Crown corporation that oversees the gaming business in the province. The documents also show revenues from the casino have been sinking to an 'unsustainable' level for about 15 years. The casino has struggled with declining revenues for a decade and COVID-19 kept it closed for most of a year.ĭocuments released to CBC show one of the options on the table is a move away from the waterfront location where the casino has been located since 2000. Officials with the Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation acknowledge the future of Casino Nova Scotia in Halifax will have to be discussed once the pandemic is over.
