Florida: Poarch Creek Tribe to buy Miami’s Magic City Casino

Florida: Poarch Creek Tribe to buy Miami’s Magic City Casino

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  • Chava Gourarie, Commercial Observer
December 1, 2022 2:37 PM

The longtime owners of Miami’s Magic City Casino plan to sell the property, and the license to operate it, to the Poarch Band Creek of Indians, a Native American tribe based in Alabama.

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The transaction is pending the approval of the newly formed Florida Gaming Control Commission, which reviewed the application Thursday morning but postponed any decision to allow time for public input.

The Havenick family has operated the casino since at least 1931, when it was a dog racing track called the Flagler Dog Track and Poker, and the first to receive a greyhound license. In 2009 it was rechristened as the Magic City Casino, and became the first pari-mutuel facility to offer slot machines, the Sun Sentinel reported at the time.