Sep 24, 2024
NEW HAVEN, Ind. (WANE) — As the rain picked up outside the New Haven Administrative building Tuesday, a small group of sign-bearing children gathered around the entrance. "Make pizza not casinos," one sign read. "No casino," read another with a visibly angry face drawn on it. The adolescent protestors were the latest voices to join a conversation about a proposed casino in New Haven. "We're looking at a site at the corner of 469 and 24 ... one of the nice things we like about this site is that it's 60 acres," said Alex Stolyar, Chief Development Officer with Full House Resorts while presenting the plan to New Haven City Council Tuesday. "I told development staff early on we need 30 acres, 60 acres what that allows us to do is set up a lot of room for buffering." The presentation was an olive branch - City Council doesn't have any work to do or say at this point in the casino's development. "We're at the very start of this thing, it's like a seed in the ground," said Jeff Turner, 2nd District New Haven city councilman. "It has many steps to go before we even get a say if it comes here or not." Full House Resorts plans to move the casino up from southern Indiana, but they first need the state legislature to allow the move. "We own the license, but it is controlled by the State of Indiana," Stolyar told WANE 15. "So it's up to the state legislature to decide if they want to allow us to relocate it just like they did in 2019 when they allowed two licenses in Gary to be relocated." At a similar information meeting targeted toward the public on Monday, Full House Resorts gave the same presentation City Council received. Full House Resorts unveils location of proposed New Haven casino Stolyar argued that casinos aren't shown to raise crime, that they are working to alleviate traffic issues and that they expect to have a very low negative impact on their neighbors. In fact, they explained the positive impact -- millions of dollars in wagering taxes going into the city's pocket -- and a boost on tourism that could put the city on the entertainment map. "Based on that, that would be $16.4 million in the first stabilized year going to the City of New Haven," Stolyar said. The difference from Monday's meeting was the feedback. While earlier in the week there were passionate supporters on both sides, Tuesday saw overwhelming concern. "There's going to be drinking and driving, there's going to be gambling and there's going to be prostitution," said one woman during the meeting. "We have better to offer than to build our economy and our culture on degeneracy," added another.
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