Paradise Island - City of Bahamas

Paradise Island is an island in the Bahamas, located just off the shore of the city of Nassau, which is itself located on the northern edge of the island of New Providence. It is best known for the sprawling 'Vegas-by-the-sea resort' Atlantis.

Paradise Island is connected to the island of New Providence by two bridges that cross Nassau Harbour. The first was built in 1966 and the second in the late 1990s.

Hartford got the gambling license for Paradise Island.

Jim Crosby and Jack Davis renamed his company Resorts International. This was the first company to introduce the concept of "buy one, get one free"[citation needed] in the United States and one of the first to franchise companies. Recognizing the business potential of the Bahamas, they were the first to establish major resort development, and introduce fair salaries to the Bahamas. Jack Davis, educated in Harvard's class of 1949, secured casino rights, and continued to develop Paradise Island. He subsequently parlayed these profits to secure and pass a referendum on legalizing gambling in Atlantic City, funding and creating the successful statewide advertising campaign to singlehandedly achieve this city's rebirth from its ashes.

Hartford also acquired and installed the Cloisters, a French 14th-century Augustinian monastery, originally purchased and dismantled in the 1920s by William Randolph Hearst.