Macau’s Ponte 16 may include gaming, says Success Universe

Macau casino investor Success Universe Group Ltd. is eyeing to add gaming for the third phase of its majority-owned Ponte 16 casino and hotel.

GGRAsia reported that Success Universe has yet to submit a final construction plan for its hotel and casino complex near Macau’s Inner Harbor. For now, Success Universe executive director and deputy chairman Hoffman Ma Ho Man said the structure will include a “mass-oriented” shopping mall.

He also wants to include gaming in the new construction plan in the existing property extension.

“We’ll also strive to add gaming there [in the third phase],” Mr Ma said. “But this is a decision that we can only confirm later, once all the design plans for the extension are approved by the government,” Ma said, according to the news website. “In the plan that we’ve submitted before, parts of phase three involved piling works to be done directly on water … but local authorities have said that they didn’t want any buildings to be constructed above the water.”