Local casino envisioned - 2004-03-18
Plans are being developed for a massive casino in North Topeka, even as the Legislature contemplates
the future of additional gambling in Kansas.

Details are sketchy, but one of the casino's top supporters, Sen. Dave Jackson, R-Topeka, said the $125 million proposal would include a hotel and be the centerpiece of a large-scale economic development plan for North Topeka's downtown area.

"I would be less than frank to say that (a casino) wouldn't be a driving force and speed up the process," Jackson said Thursday.
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Delaware Tribe seeks casino - 2004-03-18
The Oklahoma-based Delaware Tribe is the most recent tribe to propose opening a casino in Wyandotte County.

The tribe wants to develop a $225 million casino and resort in Bonner Springs next to the Kansas Speedway, which officials say would create about 2,000 jobs in the city of 6,700. The city would reap 4.2 percent of the casino revenues to begin, rising to 6 percent after seven years.

"This is a great opportunity for the largest economic
development project in the history of Bonner Springs," Mayor Clausie Smith said Wednesday.
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