Casino gambling and racing at KC

[pchall]

So, Kansas becomes a leisure/entertainment/gambling destination. The oval also gets an infield road course to create more event weekends. No word on whether the casino will make a motorsports book and take bets on NASCRAP and IRL crapshoots.

link (http://www.racinboys.com/home/article_view/article/h_8326)


Green light for Hard Rock at Kansas Speedway
Kansas City, KS - September 20, 2008
By: Kansas Speedway

Kansas Speedway and The Cordish Company (“Cordish”) announced today that Kansas Entertainment, LLC (“KE”), a 50/50 joint venture between Kansas Speedway and Cordish, has been awarded the casino management contract for Wyandotte County, Kansas, by the Kansas Lottery Gaming Facility Review Board. The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino at Kansas Speedway is scheduled to open in 2011.

The 1.5 million square-foot, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, with a cost of approximately $705 million to construct, will include a 300-room luxury hotel; a state-of-the-art casino with 3,000 slot machines and 140 gaming tables; 275,000 square-feet of destination retail, dining and entertainment including a live music venue; first-class resort amenities; and extensive meeting and convention facilities.

The development, which will be located in Kansas Speedway’s Turn 2 with strong visibility and access to both Interstate 70 and Interstate 435, will bring a distinctive and energetic destination entertainment and gaming experience to Wyandotte County and establish the area as one of the major sports and leisure destinations in the country.

[STD]

KCK gomers bite again.
ISC and company know how to locate and squeeze the easy marks.
It will go well with those state of the art water slide parks that draw in millions of tourists now. :shakehead
Chances of getting that second cab race? :laugh:
How about that infield road course so that they may have the 'sham. :laugh:


May they all just get sucked up into the coming void that will be all their's.

[Don Quixote]

KCK gomers bite again.
May they all just get sucked up into the coming void that will be all their's.
Yep. Yep.

[cameraman]

So, Kansas becomes a leisure/entertainment/gambling destination.

It worked for Branson. Never underestimate the US population's appetite for dreck.

[Don Quixote]

My favorite part is the 75 pawn shops that will ring the facility.

[eiregosod]

My favorite part is the 75 pawn shops that will ring the facility.

75 porn shops? :eek::eek:

[Steve99]

In attempting to seal this deal, ISC kept promising more and more: "Let us have the casino, and we'll give you a second Cup date. Let us have the casino, and we'll add a road course to increase the usage at the speedway. Let us have the casino, and we'll bring the CampingWorld expo." And this is just what went on above the table. :thumdown:

[STD]

In attempting to seal this deal, ISC kept promising more and more: "Let us have the casino, and we'll give you a second Cup date. Let us have the casino, and we'll add a road course to increase the usage at the speedway. Let us have the casino, and we'll bring the CampingWorld expo." And this is just what went on above the table. :thumdown:

The city/county bought into it anyway.

Little Nascar Havana.

[pchall]

75 porn shops? :eek::eek:

Warlock would go there and forget that there was a race.

[oddlycalm]

It worked for Branson. Never underestimate the US population's appetite for dreck.
Agreed. Their ability to afford dreck going duiring the next decade is an open question though. Sinking $705 million into an enternainment property right now...? :gomer:

oc

[STD]

ISC liked the lease they got on the track.