Prince George, B.C. – The owner of the Chances Bingo/gaming centre downtown says he has a deal pending for the purchase of that building.

 

John Major says the offer is not from the City, and he hopes to be able to go public with details in the not too distant future. Major released that information as he was preparing to celebrate the opening of the new gaming centre at the Treasure Cove Casino.

 

 

The new facility has 424 seats. When there are big special bingos, the show lounge at the Treasure Cove can be used to accommodate a further 200 bingo players.

 

Built at a cost of one million dollars, it replaces the activity that used to take place at the Chances Gaming Centre at 7^th Avenue and Quebec Street downtown. That facility (which cost about $17 million dollars) officially closed its doors at the end of gaming on Saturday June 6^th, a little more than 14 months after it had officially opened. At 30,000 square feet, that facility was deemed to be too big, too impersonal, and within three months of opening, owners John and Shelley Major were asking City Hall for permission to move the operations to a new facility to be added on to the Treasure Cove Casino at highways 16 and 97.

 

Major says the addition of the bingo facility at the Treasure Cove meant the addition of restaurant staff, and a redesign of the slot and gaming tables area. It also meant a new ($150,000.00) canopy was constructed outside the Casino.