“It’s a struggle, but we believe our technology is making us the best provider in the business,” Baltz said. Baltz wouldn’t quantify the savings that the new systems have delivered, but at one point during the interview he said the return on investment has been “wildly” better than expected. “There’s absolutely savings on our costs with these technologies,” said Van Baltz, a vice president and chief technology officer at Station Casinos, in an interview. is struggling to reorganize under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection - an undertaking that’s especially difficult because this area’s 14% unemployment rate is affecting its core customer base.īut IT officials at the casino and hotel chain say that they’ve found a silver lining among the dark economic clouds - new communications technologies that they’ve been able to deploy thanks to a multimillion-dollar investment in IT over the past two years.