D'Iberville Casino Plans Go To DMR Again - 2004-01-01
D'Iberville's new casino plan is almost the same design as the one the DMR authorized five years ago. A developer wants permission to construct a casino resort immediately west of the I-110 bridge. The difference this time is the developer holds a court ordered environmental study.

According to D'Iberville's mayor, the EIS basically says the site meets all state and federal regulations. "What I'm saying now is if somebody comes out and approves this project," Mayor Rusty Quave said, "they better have their own EIS to support what they're saying, because we have one."

Project engineer Mark Seymour had a copy of the EIS in his Biloxi office. "It says there is no significant impacts at this project site," he said.
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Casino project raises outcry - 2004-01-01
Colorado political and Indian leaders Wednesday blasted a private proposal to acquire land east of Denver, declare it an Indian reservation and build a
$100 million casino.

The previous owner of the Telemundo Spanish-language television network, Zee Ferrufino, and a Longmont entrepreneur, Steve Hillard, suggest putting the casino and tourist center along Interstate 70 just east of Denver.

Hillard's company, Council Tree Communications, is pitching the project as an opportunity to redress the atrocities suffered by the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes in the Sand Creek Massacre. Neither tribe currently owns land near Denver.
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