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

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Representatives from Full House Resorts held a public meeting Thursday regarding its cassino proposition for Vigo County, Ind. The end was to tout what it would bring to the west central community of interests if the Robert Indiana Gaming Commission (IGC) picks its coating for the gambling casino permit next month.

The Las Vegas-based gaming accompany showed off its design for American Place Casino, a $250 zillion resort. The complex would also lineament a four-star hotel at the Idle Creek Banquet Hall, located just outdoors of the townspeople and about cinque miles from where Full House wants to build.

“There get been way too many secrets,” said Alex Stolyar, Full House’s senior vice prexy and chief evolution officer. “Not the break of any leaders at the nation or local level, but just now the path this unconscious process has genial of unfolded. There’s been a lot of unanswered questions.”

For example, Stolyar said that published proposition selective information did not designate where the other bidders planned to place their casino. The IGC eventually published that information on its website lastly week.

Full House is single of quaternity companies that make submitted an application for the license. The commission is scheduled to select a victor at a Nov. 17 meeting.

Full House Gets Second Chance at Terre Haute

Stolyar told the audience that Full House was the first off keep company to follow a cassino permit for Terre Haute. Back inwards 2017, it pushed for lawmaking to ut simply that, but a bind voter turnout inwards a commission derailed that effort.

However, he said that the companionship learned from that travail and applied that to its proposal. Among the paint takeaways was a four-star hotel, an amenity Stolyar said was non currently usable inward the area.

A four-star hotel would supply guests with around-the-clock elbow room service, evening turndown service, and a spa, offerings that local limited-service hotels currently make out non offer.

Full House is getting a arcsecond go at Terre Haute because the 2019 expanded gaming visor included a provision for that casino, which Vigo County voters backed by a large margin in a Nov 2019 referendum.

However, when the application stop world-class opened after the vote, only 1 accompany – Spectacle Entertainment – placed a bid. Spectacle previously held the permission that was being 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 not finger same we could follow with the application.”

An IGC investigation into officials with Indianapolis-based Spectacle led to a revised proposal that was led past Terre Haute man of affairs Greg Gibson. While the direction sanctioned Gibson’s society for the certify inward May 2020, the venire declined to renew it inwards June 2021 after Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson failed to piss get along on the project.

Indiana Gaming Commission Seeks Public Input

While Full House is seeking to win supporting from the locals, officials inwards Vigo County and Terre Haute are siding with Hard Rock, which has brought in Charles Dana Gibson as a minority investor in the project.

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

Comments tin can follow emailed to: VigoCoCasinoProjectComments@igc.IN.gov and must live submitted past 4:30 pm ET on Nov. 12. The commissioning will non feature clip for public comments at the Nov. 17 meeting.

While Terre Haute area officials have got pose their chips on Hard Rock, that does not needfully mingy the IGC will select the Florida-based company’s bid. Stolyar said Full House is hopeful that the IGC will deal that his company’s adjure has included many of the items local officials said they wanted.

At $250 million, no other bidder is seeking to clothe as practically inwards the community.

“We desire it helps that we’re proposing the biggest and to the highest degree flesh out project,” he said.