Golden Nugget casinos to go public through SPAC merger

Tilman Fertitta, owner of the Houston Rockets basketball team, announced plans Monday to take both his casino empire and his restaurant business public in a $6.6 billion deal with a blank-check company. Fertitta has agreed to sell 40 percent of the Golden Nugget/Landry’s to Fast Acquisition Corp., a special-acquisition corp., or SPAC. Also known as blank-check…