Kansas Developers Look at Options

As reported by the Wichita Eagle: "Frustrated that Sedgwick County won't allow residents to vote on casino gambling, backers of a proposed Park City casino are looking elsewhere for the project.

"'For the foreseeable future, there won't be a project in this area,' said former Wichita Mayor Bob Knight, who has been representing the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska in a $270 million resort casino venture.

"Knight said investors are considering other counties, which he wouldn't identify, as well as the tribe's reservation in northeast Kansas.

"Knight made the comments after he appeared at Wednesday's Sedgwick County Commission meeting to ask for a vote on casinos.

"In August, county commissioners said they would consider an advisory referendum, but later voted to defer the referendum indefinitely after hearing objections from a group of conservative Republican state legislators.

"…Knight said Las Vegas is the leading destination for people flying out of Wichita's Mid-Continent Airport, and pointed out that a casino will be built just across the Oklahoma border from Arkansas City, 50 miles south of Wichita…"