Burswood Entertainment Complex
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| Location | Perth, Australia |
| Address | Great Eastern Highway Burswood WA 6100 Australia |
| Opening date | 30 December 1985 |
| Number of rooms | 1,196 |
| Casino type | Land-based |
| Owner | Crown Resorts Limited |
| Previous names | Burswood Island Casino (1985-87) Burswood Island Complex (1987-99) Burswood Entertainment Complex (1999-2011) |
| Renovated in | 1990, 1999, 2002, 2012 |
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| Hotel chain | Crown Metropol Perth Crown Promenade Perth Crown Towers Perth (currently under construction) |
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| Cost | A$200 million |
| Renovation cost | A$96 million (2002 renovations) A$750 million (2012 renovations) |
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| Seating capacity | 2,300 (Crown Theatre Perth) 1,800 (Grand Ballroom at Crown Perth) 830 (The Astral) |
| Number of restaurants | 32 |
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| Former names | Burswood Superdome (1987-99) Burswood Dome (1999-2011) |
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| Address | Crown Perth Great Eastern Highway Burswood WA 6100 Australia |
| Location | Perth, Australia |
| Owner | Crown Limited Group |
| Capacity | 21,754 (total) 13,600 (seated) 8,500 (basketball) 7,000 (tennis) |
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| Opened | 28 August 1987 |
| Closed | 7 September 2012 |
| Demolished | 5 July 2013 |
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Hopman Cup (1989–2012) Perth Wildcats (2004) |
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Crown Perth (formerly Burswood Island Casino, Burswood Island Complex and Burswood Entertainment Complex) is a resort and casino located in Burswood, Western Australia, near the Swan River. The resort consists of a casino, a convention centre with meeting rooms, theatre and two ballrooms along with 32 restaurants and bars, a nightclub and recreational facilities. It also features three hotels: the 405-room Crown Metropol Perth, the 291-room Crown Promenade Perth and the 500-room luxury hotel Crown Towers Perth, which was opened in December 2016.
In 1984, the Western Australian Government proposed at the suggestion of Perth businessman Dallas Dempster that a casino complex be constructed at Burswood Island on the Swan River, 3 kilometres (2 mi) east of the Perth city centre. This was the site of a large landfill facility, which posed difficulties in the proposal, design and construction phases due to the risk of subsidence resulting from decomposition and also the risk of release of effluent into the adjacent river as a result of pile driving for the construction. The winning bidder to build the complex was Tileska Pty Ltd, a joint venture between Dallas Dempster and Genting Berhad, a Malaysian casino operator. At the time, there were allegations by rival bidders of misconduct against Dempster and Western Australian Premier Brian Burke, but, after a thorough investigation of these accusations, the WA Inc Royal Commission found no impropriety in that regard. This consortium planned a two-stage construction. The first stage was initially expected to cost A$200m, and involved futuristic-looking buildings comprising a 135-table casino, 400-room hotel, 18-hole golf course, convention and exhibition centre, tennis courts, amphitheatre and other amenities, together with a beautification of the Burswood Island area. The second stage of the plan involved the A$100m construction of another hotel on the site, but no time schedule was ever set for this and the second hotel was not constructed until two decades later. The Tileska joint venture took up 60% of the capital in the Burswood Property Trust, which was to own the complex. Genting would run the resort, having experience operating casinos in Malaysia's Genting Highlands.
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