“Those rules are then sent to the Attorney General’s office and they’re currently in the Attorney General’s office, and we expect to see some feedback or response from the AG office in the next couple of weeks,” says Tom Sage, the director of the Racing and Gaming Commission.Īfter the rules and regulations are approved by the attorney general, they head to the Governor’s desk.Īfter approval from Ricketts, the rules head to their final destination: the Secretary of State’s office. Those rules passed their first hurdle in December: They were written and approved by the Nebraska Racing and Gaming Commission.

“It’s going to be a massive undertaking, there will be a hotel in Lincoln, the facility in Omaha will look much different than it looks now but I think Nebraskans will be very, very thrilled with the end result, and we can’t wait for them to open,” says Lynne McNally with Nebraska Horsemen’s.īut before construction begins, existing racetracks need their gaming licenses, and before they get their gaming licenses, the rules and regulations for gaming needs to be approved.

Officials tell 6 News the process is slow, but it’s coming.

Many are anxious to find out when they’ll be able to gamble at a casino in Nebraska. they would have never made initial investment steps unless they had their ducks in a row). Though obviously it's kinda like a queen's veto it seems like governments never actually deny TIF, but developers also only ever submit for TIF when they're already confident they'll get approval (i.e. Governments like approving them because there are no significant short-term issues with approving TIF, and they like the power they can hold over developers with the threat of withholding TIF if a certain project doesn't meet expectations in some way. TIF can basically be thought of as universal for any projects over a certain $ amount. The sports book looks pretty worthless too. The restaurants in this new Casino look worthless. The casino claims that they could not do this project without the 18 million dollar TIF they are getting. I did not think it could get any worse then the bar owners and apartment owners abuse of TIF handouts but I was wrong. This sets the bar at a new low for the most disgusting abuse of TIFs. There are several renderings of the interior.

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