The state’s top lawmakers aren’t convinced Indianapolis needs a casino, despite a new report projecting that a downtown casino would capture hundreds of millions of dollars that existing sites leave on the table.
Some Central Indiana legislators are instead looking to relocate a gaming license from Indiana’s worst-performing casino to the report’s No. 2 option, a location near Fort Wayne.
That site would bring in less than half of the total revenue and about a third of the tax dollars as an Indianapolis casino. But its advantage? The downtown Indy location would shift away 10 times more revenue from Indiana’s other casinos.
