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If the deal goes through, a riverboat project at the site leased from the Lake Charles Harbor & Terminal District will have its third owner. He called the Lake Charles area “one of the country’s largest but most underserved gaming markets.” The sale will be considered by the Louisiana Gaming Control Board on Thursday.Īmeristar chief executive Gordon Kanofsky said his company plans to market the casino to players from southeastern Texas – notably Houston – and southwestern Louisiana. The resort is being developed on a 242-acre site adjacent to Pinnacle’s L’Auberge Lake Charles casino resort. Ameristar’s plans call for a dockside casino with 1,600 slot machines and 70 table games, a hotel with at least 700 rooms – up from 400 proposed by Creative Casinos – and an 18-hole golf course. Las Vegas-based Ameristar said it will take over development and raise Creative Casinos’ state-mandated minimum investment from $400 million to at least $500 million. said Wednesday that it will acquire a riverboat casino project under development in Lake Charles, La., for $32.5 million.Īmeristar, which has eight casino-hotels, is buying the uncompleted project from Creative Casinos of Louisiana LLC, which is headed by former Pinnacle Entertainment Inc.

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