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For years the owners of Rising Star Casino in southeast Indiana have lobbied lawmakers to allow it to open a casino in Terre Haute using some of its excess, unused slots and table games.
This year, the odds are looking good for a Terre Haute casino — but Full House Resorts Inc., which owns Rising Star, might not be the one managing it.
The Senate Public Policy committee unanimously passed a massive gaming bill earlier this month that would allow a casino in Terre Haute — two years after the same committee killed a proposal to allow Rising Star Casino to move excess permitted casino games to the community.
Four lawmakers who voted against the proposal in 2017 — including the committee's chair — voted for Senate Bill 552 this month.
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In the bill's current form, Spectacle Entertainment, the new owners of the two Gary casino licenses pending final approval by the gaming commission, would be allowed to move one license to Terre Haute in order to make room for economic development where the two Majestic Star casino riverboats currently sit side-by-side.
Orginally, other Indiana casino operators would have had the option to compete against Spectacle for the chance to open a satellite casino in Vigo County without an additional license, and the Indiana Gaming Commission would pick which proposal it thinks is best.
Full House Resorts just wants the chance to compete for Terre Haute, without having to move its casino in Rising Sun, but the competitive process was stripped from the bill in the Senate Appropriations committee Thursday.
It could later be added back in, but for now, Full House resorts is cut out of a future Terre Haute casino.
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Committee chair Ryan Mishler, R-Bremen, supports moving one of the Gary casino licenses elsewhere in the state in order to make room for economic development in the region. But he was less enthusiastic about the idea of allowing Rising Star to add a satellite location, if that means moving already permitted games to Terre Haute without moving a license there.
'If it's another location, it's another license,' Mishler said. 'From a personal perspective, I look at that as a little more of an expansion because you're (essentially) creating a new license.'
Making matters more challenging for Full House Resorts in the casino chase is its geography. It's based in Nevada, whereas Spectacle Entertainment is headquartered in Indiana, where its two owners have significant connections.
Greg Gibson is a Terre Haute business leader and Rod Ratcliff is the former chairman and CEO of Centaur Gaming, which sold its two horse-track casinos in Shelbyville and Anderson to Caesars Entertainment for $1.7 billion last year, prior to signing an agreement with the Majestic Star owners for an unknown price.
Ratcliff lives in Indiana and is well known by lawmakers in the Statehouse halls.
Spectacle has purchased at least one ad in an industry newsletter, Indiana Gaming Insight, contendingthat its plans are 'good for Gary, good for Terre Haute and good for Indiana.'
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Some lawmakers also argue what Spectacle wanted two years ago and Full House wants now are completely different.
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What's changed since 2017
Two years ago, Full House Resorts asked to move some of its unused games to Terre Haute in order to make up for a decreasing revenue stream as competition grew across state lines.
In 2018, its Rising Star Casino brought in the least amount of winnings of any state casino (followed by Majestic Star I and Majestic Star II).
That proposal failed to move forward, with five lawmakers voting against it, because they were concerned about the impact on casinos in their own district, thought the proposal created an unfair tax advantage for Full House Resorts or would set a precedent for other casinos to move excess games to a separate location.
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Four of those lawmakers are still on the committee and voted yes on Senate Bill 552, including committee chair Sen. Ron Alting, R-Lafayette.
'That was almost like being a little bit pregnant,' Alting said of the 2017 bill. 'They’re going to move some and keep some. It didn’t really make sense to me.'
Another impactful change is under Senate Bill 553 the state's two racinos — no longer owned by Ratcliff — would be able to implement live table games at an earlier date.
Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray has indicated his support for moving a casino to Terre Haute, and wants competition to be a part of the process. But that could mean just allowing other casino owners to purchase Spectacle's license from them — or move an existing Indiana casino, which Full House doesn't want to do.
Full House executives argue if they get the opportunity to compete, their proposal could beat out Spectacle's. Spectacle has committed to somewhere between $100 and $150 million for the Terre Haute project, and 400 jobs, according to its ad. Alex Stolyar, chief development officer for Full House, said they've committed to $150 million and 800 added jobs in Terre Haute.
'You can see why we would want to compete for Terre Haute because we think we’ve got a chance there,' said Alex Stolyar, chief development officer for Full House.
Terre Haute community leaders are on board with a casino and have made clear they aren't endorsing one particular owner over another.
What's next
If the Senate approves the bill within the next week, it will move to the House, where its future appears less certain.
House Speaker Brian Bosma considers the bill, on a whole, 'a very large expansion of gaming.' The bill includes measures that legalize sports wagering in the state and allow racinos to start using table games at an earlier date.
But he has also indicated a concern with the Terre Haute portion of the bill, regardless of whether Spectacle or Full House gets the green light on the casino.
'I can't say with a straight face it's not an expansion by taking games inactive and putting them in a new site and declaring it just the same games. Or the license that's never been used — activating it and saying it's not an expansion of gaming,' Bosma said. 'It would be an expansion. I think that's problematic, but I'm only the speaker, I'm not the dictator.'
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