(AP) – An investment company says it plans to build a casino
and expo center in downtown St. Joseph.
The St. Joseph News-Press reports that Missouri-based Inner Circle
Investments LLC hopes to build the casino in the parking lot just north of the
Radisson Hotel, and then move the St. Jo Frontier Casino to that location.
The city has contacted Affinity Games, the company that owns Frontier, several
times about possibly moving downtown.
Planning and community development director Clint Thompson says Affinity
Gaming was reluctant to move without some kind of incentive. Thompson says Inner
Circle provides more incentive for Affinity than the city would.
The St. Joseph City Council will vote on a memorandum of understanding with
Inner Circle that shows support for the project in December.
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