Now the commissioners - with these new developments - will determine if these new developments make the property a legal and suitable casino site for Biloxi’s ninth casino. “Now they have that lease they did not have before,” McDaniel said, RW Development made an application for site approval to be on the agenda for the November meeting, said Jay McDaniel, executive director of the Gaming Commission.Īt that meeting, the commissioners decided to set a special meeting to have more time to consider the matter, he said. When he goes to the Gaming Commission on Thursday, he will bring something new - a lease with the city for the waterfront and a Supreme Court ruling from March that upheld a local court ruling that a state Tidelands lease isn’t required from the state to build the pier. Three times before the commission denied his application, saying he didn’t have control of the property at Beach Boulevard and Veterans Avenue all the way to the water’s edge, as required. that day, following the regular monthly meeting at the Gaming Commission offices in Jackson. Ray Wooldridge has been trying for 15 years to get the Mississippi Gaming Commission to give him site approval to build a casino in Biloxi.Ī special call meeting is scheduled for 9:30 a.m.

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