KISS Casino in Biloxi Still a Go, Developer Says Despite Property Listed for Sale
A $200 meg gambling casino externalise fastened to American sway legends KISS remains on caterpillar track despite development impediments caused by COVID-19 and the soil where it is to live built recently listed for sale.
Local developer Uncle Tom Dudley Stuart John Moore in 2020 reached a trade with the “Rock and Roll All Nite” icons to apply their semblance and firebrand for a $200 billion gambling casino resort. The development, pitched as Rock & Brews Casino, is to put back the former Margaritaville Casino on the Biloxi Back Bay.
Speculation arose this week that the KISS cassino was no more after the 10.1-acre belongings was listed for sale for $15.9 million.
The development is ease moving send on and the urban center is working with us. The owner of the holding has ever had someone that’s had the prop listed, so i noneffervescent finger similar we’re inward a ripe place,” Dudley Stuart John Moore told ABC/CBS affiliate WLOX.
The Margaritaville Casino closed in(p) in 2014 amid a dispute 'tween the gambling casino manipulator and then-landlord regarding a planned hotel. The argufy led to a hotel never being erected. Mississippi’s cassino laws require that gaming facilities live attended past lodging.
The dissonance was only portion of the problem that led to Margaritaville’s demise. The location of the Back Bay cassino remains stray and fragmented from Rt. 90/Beach Boulevard — the briny drag out where Beau Rivage, Hard Rock, Harrah’s, and Golden Nugget casinos are situated inward E Biloxi.
Margaritaville afterwards moved to the Biloxi shoring and opened a family-friendly non-gaming resort hotel inwards June of 2016. The resort hotel is the former Casino Magic.
Guarded Agreement
The Margaritaville prop was eventually sold inward ahead of time 2019 to Arizona-based existent demesne fast(a) RAM Group. Moore says he has an understanding in position with RAM to carry on pursuing his $200 1000000 gambling casino task despite no more onward motion existence made at the site for to a greater extent than ii years.
Moore has a to the highest degree understandable explain for developing setbacks inwards the pandemic. He maintains that his society has a number 1 right on of refusal on any cut-rate sale RAM seeks.
Moore’s 2020 draft for Rock & Brews Casino called for a 300-room hotel with balconies overlooking Biloxi Bay. The cassino program included more than 1,000 one-armed bandit machines, 36 gaming tables, and a sportsbook.
KISS Involvement Unknown
KISS members Gene Simmons and Saul John Rowlands co-founded the Rock & Brews eatery string inwards 2012. Today, the accompany has 17 locations, most of which are inward Golden State and Florida.
Moore has been quiet on KISS’ genuine involvement with his cassino project. But the band’s act upon would follow quite a apparent.
Along with the gambling casino and hotel, the archetype John Rock & Brews Casino program featured a 3,000-seat concert hall. That would almost threefold the seats capacity of Hard John Rock Live!, which is currently Biloxi’s largest casino theater.
KISS latterly wrapped upwardly its modish Las Vegas Strip residency at Caesars Entertainment’s Planet Hollywood. The band is now on its “End of the Road World Tour.”
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