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Lansing: A casino in Lansing???

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    • CommentAuthorhood
    • CommentTimeMar 7th 2010
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    Some Michigan cities bet casinos would boost economy

    A group called Michigan Is Yours is proposing a ballot measure to allow new casinos in Benton Harbor, Detroit, Flint, Lansing, Muskegon and Romulus; it would also allow slot machines at Detroit Metro. I'm excited about the prospect of having a new casino in Lansing, I'm assuming it would be downtown and that it would have a hotel. It's early in the process, but I don't see how there would be to much opposition to this. What do you think?
    • CommentAuthormicro
    • CommentTimeMar 7th 2010 edited
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    How about converting the Knapp's building into a casino? A midrise hotel could be built on the Cooley Law School parking lot to the south of it.

    At any rate, I agree Hood, I think it's an exciting prospect.
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    I see nothing saying that anything is planned. This proposal would give these cities an option to vote on casino gaming, and even then a developer would have to come forward with a proposal to actually build one.

    My thought on expanded casino gaming in general is that once you get too many too close to each other, you water down any kind of positive effect they may have and any kind of novelty they may have. The closer in proximity they get, the smaller they'll have to get because they'll only be pulling from their immediate urban areas.

    That said, as far as architecture goes, the Knapp Center is perfect for a reusage as a casino given it's high, glass-block windows no one on the floor can see through and massive amounts of contiguous floor space per floor.
    • CommentAuthorhood
    • CommentTimeMar 7th 2010
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    I think that if this ballot measure is approved there would almost certainly be a quick move to build the casinos in all the areas. I think that these new casinos would likely be quite successful, as they would be closer to the population centers than the Indian casinos. I don't really think Knapps wouldn't work well as a casino, casinos like to have all or most of the gaming on one floor (floorplates are too small) , they like to have a lot of attached parking (not possible on that site), and getting Cooley to part with their lot may not be possible. If a casino is built in Lansing it would almost certainly be built on the river and close to the Lansing Center. If I had to bet I'd say it would go on Museum Dr, or maybe on the site of Ballpark North or Market Place.

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