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Hard Rock Casino Plan to Move Ahead

Despite the many challenges that the American casino gaming industry is facing as a result of the ongoing economic crisis, the Kansas Lottery Gaming Facility Review Board has said that it is going to move ahead as planned with its objective of building and opening a new slot machine and casino gambling establishment in Kansas City. The Hard Rock Casino’s first phase has been slated to open in Wyandotte County by June of next year. The Board has insisted that the date will not change. This is in spite of the fact that the International Speedway Corporation, one of two partners on the project, released a dismal third-quarter financial statement that stated that a late 2009 opening would be more realistic.

The first phase of the new slot machine and casino gambling establishment is expected to cost somewhere in the ballpark of eighty to ninety million dollars. It is being constructed next door to the Kansas Speedway. Those involved in the project are hoping that the new casino will put Kansas on the American gambling “map,” and secure the Midwestern state a spot on the list of the top-ten gambling destinations in the country.

The Hard Rock casino is slated to open with two thousand slot game devices and seventy-five table games. The entire project would not be completed until 2011, at which point the property would encompass a three hundred room hotel and two hundred seventy-five thousand square feet of retail space at the junction of Interstates 70 and 435, all with a NASCAR theme.

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