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Country Crossing Looking At Sites For Possible Mississippi Gulf Coast Casino

Posted on May 8th, 2010

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Country Crossing, the country-themed entertainment and electronic bingo casino, which is based in Houston County in Dothan, Alabama is planning to put up a facility on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and is currently looking at several sites.

This was validated Thursday by Billy Graham, Country Crossing’s vice president of acquisitions who said, “We’ve got several locations we are looking at. We have not signed any contract.” Graham said the company’s officials are inspecting three or four locations around the Biloxi/Gulfport area where a wide expanse of land is now available for development after the area was hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The executive director of the Mississippi Gaming Commission Larry Gregory said he did meet with the casino’s executives about more than a month ago and they did talk about their idea of opening an entertainment destination in the place, but Gregory said every year there are several interested developers and investors who meet and discuss their plans with him and, “some open up here and some we never hear from them again.” The bingo casino in Dothan, Alabama has shut down for more three months now to keep Governor Bob Riley’s task force on illegal gambling from raiding the venue because the governor views electronic bingo machines as slot machines which are illegal in Alabama.

Graham said the company will proceed with plans for a new facility in Mississippi where they feel they are welcome, and where he feels confident customers from Alabama, which is just across the border, will nevertheless come to gamble. Doug Rainer, spokesman for Ronnie Gilley Properties, developer of the project said, “We have met with the folks in Mississippi and are working with them right now, on a business plan for the area, and we are pursuing other business options. We are still trying to move forward with Country Crossing in Dothan. We are pursuing legal avenues to open up, but at the same time we are looking at new options. We hope to get some relief for Houston County.”

Gregory gave a broad idea of the Mississippi Gaming Commission’s licensing procedure. He said the state encourages and will meet with any investor wanting to invest because the state works on an open and free market system. But then, he said, it would take a project four or five years to get started because background information checks on all investors with a five percent or more share in the project are very broad and thorough. He said all partners’ financial connections will be carefully examined until it is established that “it is clean money and a clean company.” Mississippi law does not allow a convicted offender to own, operate or work in a casino. At present, there are 29 gaming facilities in Mississippi and 11 on the Gulf Coast.