Casino backers’ long-held dreams to build a gambling facility in Cedar Rapids stayed alive early Saturday after the Iowa Senate did not take up a five-year extension of a moratorium advanced by House lawmakers that would have blocked new casino licenses.
Land in the northwest quadrant near downtown will be earmarked for a potential casino for the next few years, should state regulators eventually award a license to operate a gaming facility in Linn County.
Hunter 07/11/23 The City of Cedar Rapids, who have had applications to build a casino rejected by the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission and can't apply again
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