Cambodian casino operator NagaCorp says it remains on track to open its Russian casino by mid-2018.

This week, NagaCorp chairman Tim McNally told GGRAsia that the company’s in-development casino in Russia’s Primorye gaming zone near Vladivostok was “still going forward on schedule and we anticipate [it] would open in the summer of 2018.”

NagaCorp broke ground on its Naga Entertainment City project (artist’s impression pictured) last spring with the help of developer China Harbour Engineering Co Ltd. This June, NagaCorp VP Hau Chang Ping said the casino’s first phase – the cost of which has been estimated between $50m and $70m – would open by the end of 2018.

McNally said this week that it had taken NagaCorp “some time just to work through the standard local building requirements” but with all the necessary permits obtained, “we are actually in the building phase. Right now we are pretty much on schedule.”