[1] An expansion was completed in 1999, adding 594 hotel rooms and a spa and salon.

[2] During 2005, Grand Casino Gulfport was a Caesars Entertainment property.

While most of the hotel facility remained intact, the casino barge was washed ashore during the hurricane and partially blocked Beach Boulevard (U.S. Highway 90), the beachfront's main roadway.

In December 2005, Harrah's announced that the site and any remaining assets were being sold to Gulfside Casino Partnership, the owners of the adjacent Copa Casino Gulfport, the Grand's neighboring competitor whose own casino barge, which had been located in a berth at the Mississippi State Docks, was swept into the Grand's parking lot by Katrina.

The purchase by Gufside was for its own post-Katrina expansion plans.