As 2009 Approaches, Kansas Resumes Seeking Casino Investors

The state of Kansas passed a law back in 2007 that would bring four new casinos to the state. With only two days left before 2009, the state has none of those4 casinos built, and may not for a while in some areas.

Sumner County was one of the locations that was chosen for a new casino. A process that was tedious to begin with was completed when they chose Harrah's Entertainment to operate the casino in their county.

Harrah's has pulled out of that contract, and now the state is going back to the drawing board to find a new developer that will run the Sumner casino. It seems like, however, that they will be drawing the same picture as the first time.

A system that has failed to deliver a casino developer in three out of four counties in the state will be used again the second time around. Sumner started that process on Monday when they officially issued a request for proposals for their new casino.

The way the process is set up, a developer must first win approval at the local level. Then they must go before a state selection board. The selection board will then make the decision from their list of applicants on who receives the casino contract.

For the Sumner contract, the state has placed an April 1st deadline for casino applications. The deadline falling on April Fool's Day is fitting considering it has been since 2007 that the law was put in place and there still are no operating casinos in the four counties that were approved for them to be built.

December 30, 2008
Posted By Terry Goodwin
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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