The casino for a party. You could get almost anything you wanted. Reporter folks leaving river rock this afternoon says it was empty inside the tent like structure. There were three cars in the parking lot when we got here and you could virtually not see anyone else playing. Reporter river rock declined to talk to us but its gaming chairman commissioner says revenue is down at least 30 . Some say more like 45 . A tenyear bus driver for river rock invites me on the bulls. He says people used to fight over these seats. Now he is lucky if the bus is 10 full. A huge drop in employees and a huge major drop it customers. Reporter in fact, about 100 workers have left river rock to go work at graton. A slots supervisor at river rock says many of those workers live closer to the new casino. Theres a lot of options for people to go other places so, you know, graton has impacted us a little bit. A hit. Reporter many people say its hard for river rock and other smaller casinos to compete. They are
BRIDGEPORT — Plans for a new Boscov’s at Bridgeport’s Meadowbrook Mall announced in February will soon come to fruition, as the venue is slated to open in exactly one week.