February 2, 2021
In the southern American state of Arkansas and an entity known as Gulfside Casino Partnership has reportedly been given official permission to build and operate a new $254 million resort casino being envisioned for Pope County.
According to a Wednesday report from the Arkansas Times newspaper, the five-member Arkansas Racing Commission initially awarded the license to the Mississippi-based entity at the expense of the federally-recognized Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma last summer. The regulator has now purportedly endorsed this earlier judgement by a unanimous decision to grant Gulfside Casino Partnership the right to begin work on a project that it estimates could bring as many as 1,500 full-time jobs and up to $60 million in annual payroll to one of the poorest regions of ‘The Natural State’.