Sands Casino Proposal Turned Down in Kansas Again

Big time Las Vegas casino companies often use their clout from Sin City to help them gain advantages when trying to build new casinos around the country.

Most have an ever present assumption that because they have been successful in Las Vegas, they can parlay that success into other areas. Las Vegas Sands Corporation has found out in Kansas that they must still follow rules.

The Sands Corporation has been pursuing one of the new casino licenses in Kansas. They have submitted two new proposals to both Edwardsville, and Kansas City, Kansas. This coming after they have already been turned down once.

Now they have been turned down for a second time. Commissioners from the Unified Government of Wyandotte County turned away the Sands proposal by a vote of 9-1. The commissioners seemed intent on proving a point to Sands.

Others vying for the same casino license were reassured by the decision. "It is extremely troubling to see this diligent and demanding approval process undermined by a certain applicant who is asking to be exempted from the process to which each of the other proposals was subject, expecting to be endorsed even though it was already considered and denied, and long after the deadlines established by the Unified Government have passed," said Legends Sun LLC, in a statement.

Sands now only clings to the hope that Edwardsville will endorse their proposed $777 million casino.

April 4, 2008
Posted By Tom Jones
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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