Building of short-term Nebraska casino set to commence from next month

In the American state of Nebraska and Elite Casino Resorts LLC is reportedly next week set to break ground on a temporary casino for the Fonner Park thoroughbred horseracing track that will sooner or later supply a choice of roughly 300 slots.

According to a Saturday report from a source, work on constructing the interim facility is scheduled to start from September 7 following the conclusion of this year’s edition of the ongoing Nebraska State Fair. This project is subsequently due to be finished in November to purportedly give the 220-acre complex a makeshift casino also hosting a quantity of blackjack and craps-friendly gaming tables and a restaurant.

Public pronouncement:

Voters in Nebraska reportedly passed a nearby constitutional referendum in November of 2020 so as to allow horseracing tracks in ‘The Cornhusker State’ to supply a range of Las Vegas-style gambling entertainment. This important alteration purportedly prompted Elite Casino Resorts LLC to apply for permission to bring its $one hundred million Grand Island Casino Resort venue to the Hall County facility full with a 37,000 sq ft gaming floor offering a selection of some 650 slots as nicely as 20 gaming tables.

Substantial scheme:

Elite Casino Resorts LLC is already accountable for the Grand Falls Casino and Golf Resort, Rhythm City Casino Resort and Riverside Casino and Golf Resort venues in the neighboring state of Iowa and reportedly has plans to debut its 116-room Walker’s Bluff Casino Resort near the southern Illinois city of Carbondale sometime next year. The operator purportedly disclosed that it is subsequently hunting to premiere its track-side Grand Island Casino Resort development in 2025 moreover embracing a 118-room boutique hotel reminiscent of the region’s many grain silos, a present shop, a VIP lounge, a rooftop terrace and an outdoor pool alongside an Elite Sportsbook-branded sportsbetting service.

Foyer facility:

The temporary Grand Island casino is to reportedly be constructed inside the existing concourse of Fonner Park’s racetrack with its opening coming right after Elite Casino Resorts LLC secured a license from the Nebraska Racing and Gaming Commission. The premiere of this interim Nebraska project will purportedly allow the operator to start off education a lot more staff and earning nearby revenues as it endeavors to comprehensive operate on the 5-story Grand Island Casino Resort.

Coming competitors:

The WarHorse Gaming LLC enterprise of the federally-recognized Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska is in addition reportedly seeking to capitalize on the coming Nebraska casino marketplace and has currently received permission to bring similarly-sized gambling-friendly projects to the state’s Horsemen’s Park and Lincoln Race Course facilities. This operator’s $220 million WarHorse Casino at Lincoln Race Course development could purportedly debut by June of 2024 comprehensive with a 196-space hotel, a spa, many restaurants and an events space in addition to a gaming floor replete with roughly 1,200 slots prior to being followed only a couple of months later by the opening of its smaller sized WarHorse Casino Omaha venue.