KANSAS CITY, Kansas – Longtime Wyandotte County residents remember the development agreement. Hollywood Casino received STAR bonds to help build a casino in the Legends area of Kansas City, Kansas.
In turn developers agreed to begin construction of an adjacent hotel within two years.
“It would have been nice, you’ve got all this pretty nice area now,” Mike Miller said.
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They missed that deadline on February 3, 2014 and have every year since. But that comes with consequences.
“I think a lot of people had this misconception it was a ten year window. No this goes on and it will stop only if they build,” County Administrator David Johnston said.
Penn Gaming says its paid $13 million in annual fines to the Unified Government of KCK and Wyandotte County so far.
“Good grief you got the racecars. You’ve got NASA (sic). You’ve got all the stuff and they are paying a fine? I can’t imagine what the holdup would be,” Harold Hendrickson said.