"During the holidays we stopped by the tribal owned 7th Street Casino in Wyandotte County for a fresh look around and to see how the place was doing after its first year in business.
Despite a decade-long legal battle that isn’t over yet, the tribal gambling parlor opened on Jan. 10 last year with around 400 electronic gaming devices and no table games. The casino hasn’t changed much since then. The casino’s side entrance off Ann Avenue originally spilled into a large foyer and event area adjacent to a modest steakhouse and bar. That event space now houses several dozen slot machines, pushing the machine total a bit closer to 500. The Saturday lunchtime crowd we observed was thin. But a steady trickle of customers seemed to be filtering in the doors to have a go at the Class II games that look and play like slot machines but _ thanks to the miracles of modern slot technology and the vagary of federal regulatory language _ are in fact games of bingo. Regardless, the public appears to like them, having lost at least $10 million in them so far." Get the Story: