{"id":1586519,"date":"2024-07-01T14:50:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T18:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1586519"},"modified":"2024-07-01T14:50:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T18:50:50","slug":"linn-county-gaming-association-to-apply-for-casino-when-moratorium-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/linn-county-gaming-association-to-apply-for-casino-when-moratorium-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Linn County Gaming Association to Apply for Casino When Moratorium Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Linn County Gaming Association and Peninsula Pacific Entertainment will apply for the Cedar Crossing casino in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after the state's two-year moratorium on new gaming licenses expires June 30.<\/p>\n<h2>Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission rejected proposals for a casino in Linn County in 2014 and 2017<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWe were prepared to apply for a license before the legislature introduced the moratorium and so we\u2019ve just kind of been patiently waiting for two years for that to lift and to continue forward with that process,\u201d said Anne Parmley, Board President of the Linn County Gaming Association.<\/p>\n<p>The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission (IRGC) rejected proposals for a <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/casino-guides\/\">brick-and-mortar casino<\/a> in Linn County in 2014 and 2017. The city of Cedar Rapids has set aside land along the west side of the Cedar River for\u00a0development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThat strip along First Street will be an incredible entertainment destination,\u201d said Cedar Rapids Mayor Tiffany O\u2019Donnell. &#8220;This is not a done deal. This is just an encouraging step that now allows us to apply,\u201d said O\u2019Donnell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Linn County voters approved gambling twice. They voted in favor of allowing gambling in the county back in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe way the process works is that if a gaming license is not issued in eight years after a past vote, you have to vote again,\u201d said Parmley added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Therefore, voters approved gaming again in 2021. According to the state's code, the authorization to operate gambling in a county becomes permanent if approved twice by voters in the county in two successive tries.<\/p>\n<h2>If granted a license, Cedar Crossing is expected to contribute 8% of its annual gaming revenue to local nonprofits<\/h2>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Furthermore, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed that two-year moratorium in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWhile we would have liked this to have happened a long time ago, time hasn\u2019t necessarily been a bad thing. We have had an opportunity as a city to make sure that we\u2019re prepared,\u201d said O\u2019Donnell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Additionally, she reiterated that Cedar Crossing could have major economic development in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cTremendous economic development, not just from the standpoint of getting the casino up and running and the jobs that that would create, but the hundreds of jobs that an entertainment facility like that creates just by being in existence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If granted a license, Cedar Crossing plans to contribute 8% of its annual gaming revenue to local nonprofits. That's more than the 3% required by the state. The city would not provide any tax-payer-funded incentive for this project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cOur next steps will be to attend the July 8 meeting of the IRGC and find out, you know, what we need to do in order to hopefully get a casino here once and for all,\u201d said O\u2019Donnell.<\/p>\n<p>The administrator of the IRGC says commissioners will discuss how to move forward when the moratorium on gambling licenses expires.\u00a0A meeting for future plans is scheduled for July 8 in Altoona.<\/p>\n<p>According to the 2020 census, Linn County has a population of 230,299.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linn County Gaming Association and Peninsula Pacific Entertainment will apply for the Cedar Crossing casino in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after the state's two-year moratorium on new gaming licenses expires June 30. Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission rejected proposals for a casino in Linn County in 2014 and 2017 \u201cWe were prepared to apply for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":305,"featured_media":1586521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[447316,1],"tags":[447430,66144,447423,447426],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Linn County Gaming Association to Apply for Casino When Moratorium Ends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Linn County Gaming Association and Peninsula Pacific Entertainment will apply for the Cedar Crossing casino in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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