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Another casino.
Shullsburg still betting on casino after big-time bust
October 9th, 2012
By M.D. Kittle | Wisconsin ReporterMADISON — Shullsburg wants another shot at a casino.
Perhaps that’s fitting. Not many places have lived the gambler’s life — the ups and downs, the dream of hitting it big — like this former mining town tucked in the hills of southwest Wisconsin.
More than a decade after Shullsburg bet on an off-reservation casino, and lost, the little city of some 1,200 is trying its luck again with the Native American tribe that once brought the promise of hundreds of jobs, a booming tax base, and an entertainment destination to Lafayette County.
The updated proposal, rolled out this year, is scaled back a bit, but hope in the casino deal seems, at least among city leaders, alive and well.
By March of this year, the Lac du Flambeau tribe had authorized the submission of a new Shullsburg casino fee to trust application resolution, setting the procedural wheels in motion.
Read more at The Wisconsin Reporter.com
Interesting to see if this will happen.
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October 11, 2012 at 10:38 am
Interesting to see who would lend them the money to build it after their default on $50 million bond issue.
October 11, 2012 at 11:36 am
Thanks Joy, I didn’t know that information.
Have a GREAT week.