The society slow the capital of Virginia gambling casino referendum that voters rejected cobbler's last month is mulling a cause to ask the oppugn over again to residents in the Old Dominion capital.
Urban One, a subject media conglomerate focused on Negro America, partnered with gambling casino operator Peninsula Pacific Entertainment (P2E) to propose a $565 1000000 gaming resort hotel next to the Duke of Edinburgh Robert Morris baccy set on I-95.
Richmond voters narrowly rejected the local referendum during the Nov election. However, the dissatisfactory outcome hasn’t to the full ended Urban One and P2E’s cassino ambitions for Virginia.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that an travail is underway to require Richmonders once more nigh a casino. This time, messaging that hones inward on the different benefits of allowing the to a greater extent than half of a billion-dollar investiture to go will follow developed. capital of Virginia City Councilwoman Reva Trammell confirmed that a theme song assembling operation is underway for a endorse gaming ballot initiative.
Polling Returns
Richmond residents hold lately reported existence contacted past polling services to gage how they voted inward Nov and why. Though Urban One and P2E haven’t confirmed they are behindhand the surveys, the pollsters’ activity could suggest that the cassino chemical group isn’t ready to sheepfold on the majuscule region.
Clearly they believe that with slightly different messaging they would experience the chance to win if it came again,” Bob Holsworth, a warhorse political psychoanalyst and former Old Dominion Commonwealth University dean, told the Times-Dispatch.
Holsworth explains that Urban One and P2E trust the betting odds of gaining empowerment from voters would be meliorate if they more strongly encourage the fiscal benefits the gambling casino would redeem Richmond.
There are no concrete laws that would keep Richmond from holding another gaming referendum. But the urban center would presumptively demand to reopen the bidding physical process and select a gambling casino proposition before moving it before voters.
Nearby City Seeks Casino
Soon after capital of Virginia said no more to a casino, officials in Petersburg publically sonant their willingness to welcome such a resort. Located virtually 20 broadcast miles S of the Old Dominion State capital, Petersburg Mayor Samuel Parham says his townspeople is mature for the project.
Parham explains that “several of the gambling casino guys” who were in capital of Virginia feature late been exploring Petersburg. Parham is united by several body politic lawmakers sounding to Petersburg following Richmond’s rejection of the casino.
“It tin can transmute the City of Petersburg,” stated Parham.
The track for a cassino inquiry to move before Petersburg voters is far more complicated than asking Richmond residents the call into question again. That’s because of the commercial gaming practice of law Old Dominion passed last-place year. That law of nature only allows sure cities that conform to a slew of economical hardships to inquire their residents if they require to enjoyment gambling casino evolution to spark the economy.
Petersburg, dissimilar Richmond, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Bristol, and Danville, did not sports meeting all of the qualifying conditions. As a result, for a casino referendum to get to the polls in Petersburg, a land legislative effort is required.
Virginia Sen. Joe Morrissey (D-Richmond) says he plans to ask the general assembly to plunk for an amendment to the 2020 gaming eyeshade that testament set aside Petersburg Campaign to gain Richmond’s cassino privileges.
That effort will presumably haulage significant opponent from the casinos beingness built in Norfolk and Portsmouth, as Petersburg Campaign is 'tween Richmond and the Lionel Hampton Roads area.