A Las Vegas-Style Poker Room Might Come To Abandoned Virginia MallCould The Heart Of Appalachia Get Another Poker Room? |
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There are casinos in 80 percent of the states in America, and Virginia could soon leave the minority and become one of them.
Though Las Vegas-style gambling still isn’t allowed, the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that allows all states to regulate sports betting could finally break the dam in Virginia. The sports betting market is exploding, which could provide the impetus to finally approve casino gambling.
Per a report from News Channel 11, a Las Vegas-style casino project is now being pitched for an abandoned 450,000-square-foot mall in Bristol, a city that sits in the southwestern part of the state on the Virginia-Tennessee border.
The report said that the lobbying firm Alliance Group Ltd. is trying to sway state lawmakers to allow gambling and green light the project.
The mall is considered “dead,” but an electronic sign on the property says: “We’re betting on Bristol!” Bristol Mall opened in 1976 and was shuttered completely in 2017.
No official details of the proposed casino have been released yet. Thanks to the scarcity of poker tables in that part of the Appalachian region, it’s a safe bet to assume a casino at the Bristol Mall would have a poker room.
Tennessee doesn’t have any casinos, and neither does nearby Kentucky. North Carolina has just three casinos. West Virginia to the north has five casinos with poker rooms.
The plan for the casino follows a tribal group earlier this year indicating its interest in building a $700 million casino in the eastern part of the state.
Image courtesy of the Bristol Herald Courier
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