Pinnacle owns casinos in Indiana, Missouri and Louisiana, and racetracks in Ohio and Texas.Ĭontact reporter Howard Stutz at or 70. He said M1 would move its corporate offices from Las Vegas to Reno.Īlthough Pinnacle’s based in Las Vegas, Boomtown was the company’s only Nevada casino. $4 million to upgrade gaming equipment and improve other parts of the property. 20+ Locations 100+ Restaurants 15+ Cities A Group of People Play Happily at a Game. M1 Gaming also operates the Reserve Casino Hotel in Central City, Colo.ĭiLullo told the gaming commission last week that M1 had already hired roughly 50 people for Boomtown and the company would spend $3 million to It’s a very strong name and a very strong brand,” he said. DiLullo told the Reno Gazette-Journal the Boomtown name would remain. The property on 80 acres off Interstate 80 west of Reno has a 40,000 square-foot casino with 600 slot machines and 18 table games. The company, headed by former Station Casinos executive Dean DiLullo, agreed to buy the 318-room hotel-casino last fall for $12.9 million from Pinnacle Entertainment.
M1 Gaming was approved as the owner and operator of Boomtown last week by the Nevada Gaming Commission. A company operated by a former Station Casinos executive was expected to assume ownership of the Boomtown Casino in Reno this morning.
