Clinton Casino Moving Forward

Wild Rose Entertainment is spending somewhere around $32 million to build a new slot machine casino resort in Clinton, Iowa. The company has just made a deal to purchase 28.6 acres of land in the Eastern part of the state, which will make it the ideal location to place their slot machine casino. The area is surrounded by stores and restaurants, making it a vacation destination instead of just slot machines.

The company is using this casino to replace the Mississippi Belle II which is a riverboat casino that the company bought last year. Now that they have the land they want, they are going to break ground in the spring as the ground is too hard right now to be worked on. The company said they cannot wait to get started, but that this year’s weather has made it difficult to make any headway.

The new casino will have 650 slot machines and 20 table games, as well as restaurants, a hotel, and a conference center. It will also enable the closing of the riverboat casino so that the town can use the riverfront for something else. The company feels that the new casino will make them more competitive having one on land – as opposed to the old one.

The company is one in a long line of businesses that have been trying to do something with the old casino to make it cost effective; Wild Rose purchased it for $46.3 million with the plan of just tearing it down and building another one in a different location.

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