The two casino facility proposals for Wyandotte County received approval from the county’s Unified Board of Commissioners on July 11th, 2009. In a 7-2 decision, the board forwarded to the state gaming commission the two casino proposals that emerged earlier this year after the Kansas Lottery Commission reopened the casino bidding process for a casino developer to handle a state-owned casino facility.
Kansas Entertainment LLC, a collaboration of Kansas Speedway and the Cordish Company, received the go signal for its proposal to construct a $387 million casino facility next to the Kansas City, Kan., racing track. Penn Hollywood Kansas LLC, a subsidiary of the group that owns the Argosy casino in Riverside, received an approval for the $330 million casino facility and hotel it wants to construct next to Schlitterbahn Vacation Village at Interstate 435 and Parallel Avenue.
The Lottery Commission can now begin negotiating gaming contracts with the casino developers. Once the gaming contracts are finalized, the Lottery Gaming Facility Review Board will hold talks to decide which casino gaming proposal to choose. Last year, the Review Board picked Kansas Entertainment’s casino proposal for a $705 million casino facility, but Kansas Entertainment later withdrew its proposal because of the global financial crisis.
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