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The Arkansas Racing Commission signed off on a $350 million casino project in Pine Bluff in June. The development, which will be known as the Saracen Casino Resort, comes from the Quapaw Nation’s Downstream Development Authority.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Jefferson County opted to partner with the Quapaw Indians, a Native American group based in Oklahoma. The tribe is essentially building a clone of its Oklahoma Downstream Casino Resort in Arkansas.<\/p>\n
While things are moving forward at Southland, Oaklawn, and Saracen, the Pope County casino odds remain long at best.<\/p>\n
Voters in Pope opposed the motion to legalize commercial gambling, and therefore concurrently passed a resolution in November 2018 that bars its county judge from writing a letter of support for a casino project unless six out of 10 local voters lent approval. Issue 4 received only 40 percent support from Pope voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Arkansas racinos took $5.2 billion in bets during their 2019 fiscal year, an all-time high that has the industry optimistic moving ahead as the properties transition to full-scale commercial casinos. Players at Southland Casino Racing in West Memphis and Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort in Hot Springs inserted $5.2 billion into the electronic gaming machines between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":115064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Arkansas Racinos Enjoy Record Fiscal Gaming Year<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n