Full House Takes Its Case for $250M Terre Haute Casino to Local Residents

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Representatives from Full House Resorts held a public encounter Thursday regarding its casino proposition for Vigo County, Ind. The end was to ticket tout what it would get to the due west central biotic community if the Robert Indiana Gaming Commission (IGC) picks its applications programme for the cassino permit next month.

The Las Vegas-based gaming society showed cancelled its contrive for American Place Casino, a $250 gazillion resort. The complex would also feature a four-star hotel at the Idle Creek Banquet Hall, located just now outdoors of the townspeople and almost fivesome miles from where Full House wants to build.

“There have been path too many secrets,” said Alex Stolyar, Full House’s senior vice chair and chief evolution officer. “Not the fault of any leaders at the nation or local level, but just now the way of life this appendage has genial of unfolded. There’s been a lot of unreciprocated questions.”

For example, Stolyar said that published proposition info did non suggest where the other bidders planned to lay their casino. The IGC eventually published that information on its website finally week.

Full House is unity of quaternary companies that experience submitted an application for the license. The commissioning is scheduled to select a winner at a Nov. 17 meeting.

Full House Gets Second Chance at Terre Haute

Stolyar told the audience that Full House was the first of all companion to act on a casino certify for Terre Haute. Back inward 2017, it pushed for legislation to perform simply that, but a tie beam voter turnout inwards a commission derailed that effort.

However, he said that the company learned from that elbow grease and applied that to its proposal. Among the tonality takeaways was a four-star hotel, an amenity Stolyar said was not currently usable in the area.

A four-star hotel would cater guests with day-and-night elbow room service, eventide turndown service, and a spa, offerings that local limited-service hotels currently make non offer.

Full House is getting a indorsement scissure at Terre Haute because the 2019 expanded gaming government note included a proviso for that casino, which Vigo County voters backed by a big margin inward a Nov 2019 referendum.

However, when the coating stop number one opened after the vote, only when ane company – Spectacle Entertainment – placed a bid. Spectacle antecedently held the licence that was beingness moved to Terre Haute.

We looked at it real carefully,” Stolyar told Casino.org after the meeting. “We looked at it every which way, and at the finish of the day, we did non sense ilk we could bring home the bacon with the application.”

An IGC investigating into officials with Indianapolis-based Spectacle led to a revised proposition that was led past Terre Haute businessman Greg Gibson. While the commission sanctioned Gibson’s accompany for the license inward May 2020, the panel declined to renew it in June 2021 after Althea Gibson failed to create onward motion on the project.

Indiana Gaming Commission Seeks Public Input

While Full House is seeking to win financial support from the locals, officials inwards Vigo County and Terre Haute are siding with Hard Rock, which has brought inwards Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson as a nonage investor inward the project.

Even as those elected officials get submitted letters of sustenance for Hard Rock, Full House leaders urged residents to state their own. On Wednesday, the IGC said it would swallow written comments.

Comments can be emailed to: VigoCoCasinoProjectComments@igc.IN.gov and must live submitted past 4:30 pm ET on Nov. 12. The direction testament non have got clip for public comments at the Nov. 17 meeting.

While Terre Haute country officials get place their chips on Hard Rock, that does non necessarily stand for the IGC will pick out the Florida-based company’s bid. Stolyar said Full House is hopeful that the IGC will debate that his company’s call has included many of the items local officials said they wanted.

At $250 million, no other bidder is seeking to commit as a great deal inward the community.

“We hope it helps that we’re proposing the biggest and most flesh out project,” he said.