Gateway Development Consortium's Larry English says, "If you're going to really develop Cross Bayou...and it's going to take you at least a decade to do that."
The City Council will hear the Gateway Development Consortium's presentation at their working session on May 21, then plan to vote at their meeting the next day.
State Gaming Control Chairman Ronnie Jones says that, regarding the Diamond Jack's move, "My sense of the legislative process is that things are never, ever done."
"Compared to other states, we're about number forty five or so," says economist Dr. James Richardson, "...the bottom ten states, sometimes in the bottom five."
Billy Nungesser says that even he was surprised at the money the event brings to the state, saying, "To compare it, it is second in revenue only to the Super Bowl."