The Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma is buying more land around its new casino.
The $301 million Downstream Casino
Resort is set to open July 5. The facility is located in Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri.
The land on the Oklahoma side is in trust and will be used for the gaming portion of the resort. The parking lot is located in Cherokee County, Kansas, where tribe recently bought 146 acres.
“We’re becoming a fairly large landowner in Cherokee County,” Chairman John Berrey said at a meeting with county commissioners, The Joplin Globe reported.
The paper said the tribe wants to develop the new property in connection with the casino.
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(The Joplin Globe 6/17)
Casino's dominate county commission meeting (KOAM 6/16)
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Quapaw Tribe buys more land near new casino
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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