That’s a real drag.
Gambling, like socialism, works fine until you run out of other people’s money.
Just like all over the country. Indian Casinos, non-Indian Casinos, riverboats, and more. Market is saturated.
Everybody expects to be a Winner when it comes to gambling. But reality is that, while it may be fun, and it may seem worth it to some, in the end, pretty much everyone plays the Loser.
Municipalities are no different from the guy from out of town.
I am part of a timeshare, not recommend getting one, that has a location in Tunica. There is nothing to do in the general area except go to Graceland.
Still 10 casinos in Tunica area
Not enough population nearby for all that
Memphis mostly
I am close enough, in Nashville, that Tunica always sounded like it might be an enjoyable weekend. Stay in a nice hotel, go to a nice restaurant or two, lose 100 bucks at roulette and call it a night.
Then I talked to people who had been there, and they were like, what nice hotel? what nice restaurant? Yes you can lose money, but beyond that there are no amenities, and you’re basically on a mudflat in the Delta.
Tunica.....Is that near One-ica?
So. Who's bright idea was it to build a multi-million dollar gambling complex in “America’s Ethiopia”?
bbb….bbbbu…...bbb…...bbbut Ed Rendell told us that if we legalized casinos in Pennsylvania the revenue would come rolling in in such copious amounts that they could do away with our property taxes.
The generation of gamblers is dying. Fewer buses of senior citizens going fromTexas to Louisiana’s casinos. The younger generation is either too broke to gamble with the retirement home crowd, or they are more interested in buying electronic toys. Cash-starved states should not blow their last dollars on developing casinos for the Mafia.
apparently no one at the la slimes has ever bothered to look at an atlas (or online map). tunica is well over 300 miles from mississippi delta.
Isn’t the Dixie Mafia hiring?
The real reason is West Memphis, Arkansas, (right across the MS River from downtown Memphis, a five-minute drive) has tons of slot machines and even dog racing. The parking lot there stays packed year round. No reason anymore for Memphis folks (and tourists) to drive down to Tunica.
Tunica and the Clarksdale area have some of the best cotton land you’ll ever see (soybeans too, of course). They should have just let folks be instead of trying to turn Tunica into a small Las Vegas. What some people call progress is not always progress.
Thanx for the article. 20 years ago I was traveling with an architect to identify several projects. We wanted to build 100 homes in Tunica and the funding evaporated.