Cedar Rapids investors are preparing a third attempt to win a casino license from the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission, which would allow for the construction of a $250 million casino complex on the west bank of the Cedar River downtown.
The commission plans to hire a firm to conduct a gambling market study. It will be interesting to see if the commission rounds up the usual suspects and picks a firm that has done past market studies, or whether it will look for a new perspective.
It was market studies that doomed the first two Linn County license bids in 2014 and 2017.
