Job Projections

Listening to the glowing, yet phony job creation figures tossed around in Massachuetts, this offers more realistic numbers:

employ up to 2,000 people

about 500 construction and other development jobs

For this facility:

45,000-square-foot gaming facility with

2,200 slots

50 table games

35,000-square-foot convention center

300-room hotel

Ho-Chunk describe proposed Beloit casino
By GINA DUWE

Call it peanut butter and jelly or salt and pepper.

The leader of the Ho-Chunk Nation used both Tuesday night to describe its relationship with the city of Beloit as they move forward with plans for a casino.

“I think we have a match—a place that is looking for opportunity and a nation that has the potential to create opportunity,” said Jon Greendeer, president of the Ho-Chunk Nation.

About 200 people packed the Beloit Library to hear Ho-Chunk representatives present their plans to build a $150 million to $200 million casino facility on a 32-acre parcel just off of Interstate 90/39 in Beloit.

Beloit City Manager Larry Arft also presented the details of the draft intergovernmental agreement, which is the last big piece of the application Ho-Chunk needs to move the proposed project forward.

Greendeer and former Vice President Daniel Brown described plans that include a 45,000-square-foot gaming facility with 2,200 slots and 50 table games. A 35,000-square-foot convention center and 300-room hotel also would be part of the facility they described as “modern”—unlike their other facilities that have a “more woodsy” motif, they said.

The casino complex would employ up to 2,000 people, and about 500 construction and other development jobs would be created to build the facility, Brown said.