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Boardwalk Casino acquires control of additional land on the Strip.


LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 1996--Boardwalk Casino casino or cassino (both: kəsē`nō).

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:BWLK) Monday Monday: see week.  announced that it has entered into a land lease -- with option to buy -- for a one-acre parcel of land.

The parcel is located north of, and adjacent to, Boardwalk Hotel & Casino. The addition of the property would extend the company's Strip frontage from 437 feet to 587 feet, a 34 percent increase. Boardwalk has begun to plan its next level of expansion and the newly leased land will figure prominently. Terms of the lease were not disclosed.

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American Confederate general who was active at the battles of Shiloh (1862) and Chickamauga (1863). He was a founder and the first leader (1866-1869) of the Ku Klux Klan.
 Woodward, president of Boardwalk Casino Inc., commented. "This site gives us room for future growth at a time when we are just beginning to contemplate expanding our room base and casino size." Boardwalk is currently completing its initial three-phase plan, which triples the number of rooms and doubles the casino size.

Boardwalk Casino Inc. currently owns and operates a 654-room hotel -- operating as a Holiday Inn franchise -- and a 33,000-square-foot casino located on Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States.  Boulevard (the "Strip"). The company's common stock and warrants are traded on NASDAQ under the symbols "BWLK" and "BWLKW," respectively.

CONTACT: Boardwalk Casino Inc., Las Vegas

Nan McKown, 702/730-3108

702/739-7918 (fax)

NMckown670@aol.com (e-mail)

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