A casino resort rises in Maryland, transforming sand to shimmer
Oxon Hill, Maryland
As MGM opens a new resort this week on a hillside overlooking the Potomac River, it will deliver a victory in a long effort to develop a shoreline carved from a sand-and-gravel pit.
The US$1.4 billion resort at National Harbor, a mini-city south of Washington, puts casino gambling just 11 kilometres from the nation's capital and is a prominent addition to Prince George's County - a long overlooked but upwardly striving county of 900,000 residents, the majority of them black.
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