Why are they deliberately delaying the opening ?
Well first of all, no one, not even Nostradamus predicted that Sand nearly go bankrupt and the world went into an economic tail spin.
To fund such a project, you have a certain projection on returns and revenue, so today's return is Zilch.
So hold on to the construction loan first and pay less interest and hold on to the opening to save operating cost because there will be much lesser customer with cash to throw in casino.
They are basically not in good shape.
Convert it to a place where people put ashes like Kwang Ming San, sure got business.