{"id":246606,"date":"2017-02-16T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=246606"},"modified":"2017-02-16T06:00:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T20:00:23","slug":"site-visit-wows-casino-commission-staff-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/site-visit-wows-casino-commission-staff-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Site visit wows casino commission staff, officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-246606 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/site-visit-wows-casino-commission-staff-officials\/site-visit-pix1\/'>Site-visit-pix1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-246618'>\n\t\t\t\tOfficials and staff the Commonwealth Casino Commission inside the main building of the $550-million flagship casino and resort project of Imperial Pacific International, Ltd. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/site-visit-wows-casino-commission-staff-officials\/site-visit-pix3\/'>Site-visit-pix3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-246619'>\n\t\t\t\tThe first look of the inside of Imperial Pacific Resort Hotel where workers continue its round-the-clock work. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Officials of the Commonwealth Casino Commission toured Imperial Pacific International, Ltd.&#8217;s mega-million casino and resort project in Garapan on Tuesday.  <\/p>\n<p>Casino commission staff and officials composed of chair Juan Sablan, vice chair Joseph C. Reyes, commissioner Alvaro A. Santos, commissioner Justin Manglona, and executive director Edward Deleon Guerrero toured the site in order to facilitate planning for the casino\u2019s upcoming soft opening.  <\/p>\n<p>Overall, commission officials were \u201cvery impressed\u201d with the project\u2019s progress.  <\/p>\n<p>Imperial Pacific and the Commonwealth Casino Commission have been working to ensure the project\u2019s success, which is directly correlated with the success of the CNMI economy. Imperial Pacific thanks the casino commission for its support of the industry and looks forward to many productive years for the CNMI.<\/p>\n<p>Imperial Pacific Resort and Hotel is being touted as the single largest investment in the Pacific region. For more than a year now, over 2,000 workers have been laboring to meet its 2017 completion date. <\/p>\n<p>With this year\u2019s opening, Imperial Pacific Resort and Hotel is expected to position the Northern Marianas as one of the top gaming travel destinations in the world.<strong> (PR) <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials of the Commonwealth Casino Commission toured Imperial Pacific International, Ltd.&#8217;s mega-million casino and resort&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":246610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,3126,9661,14722],"class_list":["post-246606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-commonwealth-casino-commission","tag-imperial-pacific-international","tag-imperial-pacific-resort"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}