Friday, January 05, 2007

Ilitch/Malik casino syndication partner to run Lake Tahoe casino once owned by Sinatra.



Former MotorCity Casino investor Celani to renovate, run Lake Tahoe casino

By Bill Shea

11:57 am, January 3, 2007

A former owner of Detroit’s MotorCity Casino now plans to operate a Lake Tahoe casino that was owned for a short time in the 1960s by Frank Sinatra

The Nevada Gaming Control Board on Dec. 21 approved Tom Celani’s license to run the Cal-Neva casino in Crystal Bay.

Celani plans to spend $35 million to renovate the 81-year old casino, hotel and spa, the Detroit Free Press reported. He said he’s hired historians to help restore the casino resort, which straddles the Nevada-California line, over a year beginning in April.

Celani’s Luna Gaming Tahoe L.L.C. will lease the casino beginning today from its owner, Namwest L.L.C. Terms of the lease were not disclosed.

Celani, a Bloomfield Hills resident who helped fund the successful 1996 statewide referendum on casino gaming in Detroit, sold his 10 percent stake in MotorCity to Marian Ilitch in April 2005.

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From the Frank Sinatra Biography ...

"Sinatra lost his Nevada gambling license in 1963 after a Mafia leader, Sam Giancana, was seen in the Cal-Neva Lodge gambling casino in which Sinatra then held a major interest. The license was restored in 1981."


you may also want to see these posts:

* The Verifiable Truth: Ex-owner of MotorCity gets Nev. casino license

* The Verifiable Truth:
The Detroit Gaming Syndicators: Marian Ilitch, Michael Malik and Tom Celani

* The Verifiable Truth:
History of Cal Neva - Sinatra's one-time casino resort property

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