Casino deal no sure bet for Gulfport Harbor
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) – The latest casino plan for the Biloxi’s harbor is far from a done deal.
The Sun Herald reports the developers — Virginia attorney Robert Lubin and Kentucky casino-company owner Kevin Preston — still have to raise the money to build the casino.
Lubin and Preston also must satisfy Mississippi Gaming Commission demands that any casino built in the state must have 300 hotel rooms; at least a 50,000-square-foot casino floor; a fine-dining restaurant; and a non-gambling amenity meant to grow the casino market.
Lubin and Preston say they can build a casino resort on about 10 acres in the harbor for $140 million.
But the only casino built under current Gaming Commission requirements, the Scarlet Pearl in D’Iberville, cost $290 million.
