Louisiana Casino Rejected, as St. Tammany Voters Say ‘No’ to Slidell Resort

A Pelican State casino project called Camellia Bay Resort on the Lakeshore Marina inward Slidell met its fate yesterday. And it wasn’t 1 developers of the proposed $325 zillion missionary post had hoped for.

Voters inwards St. Tammany Parish faced only if a single oppugn during yesterday’s delayed election. Parish residents were asked if they wished to allow a cassino manipulator to relocate its gaming privileges from Bossier City to a designated region along Lake Pontchartrain, just now southeast of Interstate 10 at Exit 261.

Approximately 63 percent of parish voters said they opposed allowing a commercial-grade gambling casino to add up to the county. Thomas More than 30 percent of eligible voters participated inwards the local ballot election, a turnout that was far higher than expected.

Opposition to Peninsula Pacific Entertainment’s (P2E) efforts to play its DiamondJacks Casino gaming permission to Slidell was led by faith-based groups.

Our biotic community has spoken!” exclaimed Stand Up St. Tammany, ace of the anti-Slidell casino groups. “It was a tremendous elbow grease of monumental balance against the largest monetary introduce inwards the chronicle of Louisiana.

“We are so proud of the turnout and so proud of the fact that the Dame Rebecca West and the Orient position of the parishes STOOD STRONG TOGETHER to overpoweringly vote single way!” the Stand Up St. Tammany financial statement added.

Fiscal Losses

Peninsula Pacific Ocean for good unsympathetic DiamondJacks amid the height of the pandemic. The California-based casino operator sought-after(a) a to a greater extent attractive operating marketplace and believed it had found that in St. Tammany.

P2E said in a statement that the troupe is disappointed in the election outcome, but “grateful for all the relationships that were created and the time that the biotic community invested inwards Camellia Bay.”

The voting is a major red ink for P2E. The society poured inward $5 1000000 to its campaign. Peninsula Pacific also donated $1 billion to Hurricane Ida relievo efforts, the powerful Category 4 destructive surprise that delayed the planned Nov 13 balloting until yesterday.

Some local leaders trust the gambling casino referendum dismission is also a major financial deprivation to St. Tammany and Slidell. P2E had sworn with a successful ballot outcome to establish a $35 jillion community athletics composite adjacent to the resort, and chip in another $5 billion to the edifice of the Slidell doughnut levee.

“We know inwards economical developing we can’t win them all,” conceded Chris Masingill, executive director managing director of St. Tammany Corporation, the parish’s economic development arm.

P2E Future Unknown

With St. Tammany Parish unwelcoming Peninsula Pacific, the election puts the company’s Louisiana cassino license inward jeopardy. The Pelican State Gaming Control Board possesses the say-so to lift the license. Another choice could live for P2E to reopen DiamondJacks in Bossier City.

The election rejection for the Slidell gambling casino nonetheless should fulfill an ongoing cause thought-provoking the legality of the St. Tammany referendum. A aggroup was contesting inward court, inwards a complicated matter that reached the LA Supreme Court, whether a local ballot referendum authorizing gaming inward a bingle location is allowed below the Pelican State Constitution.

The plaintiffs’ argued local gaming referendums must legitimize gaming inward the full parish — non a specific spot. They worried many casinos could come in to the region with a Dec 11 voter turnout favoring P2E.