{"id":6942,"date":"2019-12-05T18:26:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T00:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=6942"},"modified":"2019-12-05T18:26:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T00:26:37","slug":"caesars-entertainment-completes-sale-of-the-rio-to-dreamscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=6942","title":{"rendered":"Caesars Entertainment Completes Sale of the Rio to Dreamscape"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LAS VEGAS,\u00a0Dec. 5, 2019\u00a0\/PRNewswire\/ —\u00a0Caesars Entertainment Corporation (NASDAQ: CZR<\/a>) (“Caesars”\u00a0or “Caesars Entertainment”), one of the world’s most diversified casino-entertainment providers, today announced it has completed the previously announced sale of the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino (the “Rio”) to a company (the “Buyer”) affiliated with Dreamscape Companies (“Dreamscape”), which is owned and controlled by\u00a0Eric Birnbaum, for\u00a0$516.3 million\u00a0(including certain fees, expenses and\u00a0$40 million\u00a0in seller financing provided by a Caesars affiliate). \u00a0Dreamscape acquires, repositions and\/or develops hospitality, residential, retail, gaming and entertainment assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In connection with the completion of the sale, a Caesars subsidiary entered into a lease with the Buyer under which Caesars will continue to operate the property for a minimum of two years and pay annualized rent of $45 million. The Buyer has the option to pay Caesars $7 million to extend the lease under similar terms for a third year. At the end of the lease term and at the request of the Buyer, Caesars may continue to manage the Rio or may provide transition services to the Buyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rio will continue to be part of the Caesars Rewards network during the lease term, and the transaction is not expected to result in any changes to the guest experience. The World Series of Poker will be hosted at the Rio in 2020 and hosting rights will remain with Caesars Entertainment thereafter. Further details on the transaction are available in the Form 8-K to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Caesars Entertainment Corporation (NASDAQ: CZR) (“Caesars” or “Caesars Entertainment”), one of the world’s most diversified casino-entertainment providers, today announced it has completed the previously announced sale of the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino (the “Rio”) to a company <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5637,8222,5992,2203,5390,1770,7313,1397,1103],"tags":[4460,6741,9090,9089,2396,3191,232,3516,655,5521,8160,784,9088,9084,9082,2503,9083,2245,4265,2916,7212,1684,3030,2552,3879,5072,1779,1254,214,2462,854,7715,1936,2352,412,5519,2826,9092,2452,2179,9085,4981,9087,1608,3666,9091,4300,1934,2302,9086,3397,1424,3186,2755],"class_list":["post-6942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-consumer-news","category-economic-news","category-finance-news","category-gambling-news","category-hotel-news","category-las-vegas-news","category-stock-news","category-travel-news","tag-acquires","tag-announced","tag-annualized","tag-assets","tag-buyer","tag-caesars","tag-casino","tag-commission","tag-company","tag-completes","tag-continue","tag-corporation","tag-develops","tag-diversified","tag-dreamscape","tag-entertainment","tag-eric-birnbaum","tag-exchange","tag-expenses","tag-experience","tag-extend","tag-fees","tag-financing","tag-founder","tag-gaming","tag-guest","tag-hospitality","tag-hotel","tag-las-vegas","tag-lease","tag-logo","tag-motel","tag-network","tag-nevada","tag-news","tag-operate","tag-pay","tag-poker","tag-prnewswire","tag-property","tag-providers","tag-rent","tag-repositions","tag-residential","tag-retail","tag-rewards","tag-rio","tag-sale","tag-securities","tag-seller","tag-series","tag-suite","tag-suites","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6944,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942\/revisions\/6944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}