The Hampton Beach Casino has the green light to go ahead with a major redevelopment on the popular tourist strip. The town planning board voted unanimously Wednesday night to approve plans to renovate the New Hampshire attraction.

The current site on Ocean Boulevard is more than 100 years old and developers say it "has reached the end of its useful life." They also say the building is not fully accessible to people with disabilities and lacks modern-day fire and flood prevention measures.

"The 'Casino' has a long history - my grandparents used to visit it and the Beach back in the 1920s and 30s. But it is now beyond repair," Hampton Planning Board chair Sharon Mullen told WBZ-TV.

The new plans call for the casino ballroom capacity to be increased from 2,200 seats to 3,500. It would

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