Thursday’s meeting of the Mississippi Gaming Commission saw commissioners approve one new site and pause another.
Commissioners “approved the Tullis Hotel and Casino site in east Biloxi, meaning the land off Highway 90 where Tullis Manor once stood is a legal gaming site,” WLOX reported. “The Gaming Commission also put consideration on hold for the Tivoli Casino project. It would be built on the site of the old Tivoli Hotel, which is just west of the Biloxi Yacht Club.”
Both are facing legal challenges as Secretary of State Michael Watson filed a lawsuit challenging the Tullis Manor project” in October and “filed a similar suit against the Tivoli Casino project, which is a development by Biloxi Capital LLC.”
The Mississippi Legis-lature legalized dockside casino gambling with the passage of House Bill 2 in the 1990 touting the revenue would go to education.
Reports from the American Gaming Assoc-iation (AGA) have revealed that casinos across the region have brought in $622.1 million in the first three months of this year, which is an increase of almost $20 million.
There are currently 29 casinos in Mississippi.
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