Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you ladies and gentleman (Operator Instructions) Our first question from the line of Felicia Hendrix from Barclays Capital. Please go ahead ma’am.
Felicia Hendrix - Barclays Capital
Hi, Good morning guys. Tim thanks for that explanation about what's going on in the regions I am wondering if just focusing on Lawrenceburg for a second. Are you guys satisfied with how the property's performance has been thus far and if that answer is no. Just wondering what you are doing to drive growth there I know you highlighted some new amenities at the pavilion and may be that some of it but if you could add to that?
Peter Carlino
Sure, it’s Peter, no Tim go ahead. I mean the answer is of course no you have already got that part of it Felicia but I would now let Tim doing them.
Tim Wilmott
Yeah, I think Felicia the gaming revenues grew 12% year-over-year we are not satisfied with that at all. We saw our turntables accounts grow over 20%. So we are getting a lot of visitation. We’ve done a lot of market research in the third quarter, what the consumer feels about the experience and overwhelmingly the casino area and the amenities within the casino space have been very well received. We are not getting growth in our VIP segments that we had hoped for and we recognized that we are working right now and improving the non-gaming amenities in Lawrenceburg. We are going have a new meeting space complete late this year, early next year. So that we can conduct more VIP special events in a high quality environment on the casino floor. And we are improving the tiered restaurants that are on that third level in that space, which will be finished in the late second quarter, early third quarter of next year.
So, clearly the opportunities are there to grow in the VIP segment. We’re seeing good volumes as I said before and we are working and hopefully within 9-10 months from today. We’ll have those non-gaming amenities present in the facility, so that we can take advantage of everything we’ve done on the casino floor throughout the entire facility.
Felicia Hendrix - Barclays Capital
Great. And is it that?
Peter Carlino
Go ahead. I would add that if you recall how that gaming floor is accessed. The parking garage is on both sides enter on that floor. And certainly our goal is to make sure that the customer has one seamless, seamlessly positive experience from the moment you will set foot on that level. The planning the fact that we’ve already settled on the architecture, these programs are very exciting as we’ve already approved them are being drawn and priced right now. I can tell you that virtually all of that floor is going to be done within the original budget set by, that we publicly released to you and approved by our board. Because we actually achieved some savings within that project, so we are going to be able do that without a lot of paying. Then we’ll move down to the lower floor in the following year with some modest improvements there and I think we pretty well done it at that point at Lawrenceburg. So Tim gave you the explanation of our plan going forward but we are pretty excited about what we’ve done there. We just need to hang in there long enough to see better performance from our customers.
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