Kentucky: Mint Gaming aims to expand into former big-box retail space in Bowling Green

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 11:03 PM
  • Don Sergent, Bowling Green Daily News

Gambling may be coming to Bowling Green after all, just not in the site originally proposed by the owners of Franklin’s Kentucky Downs.

Rejected in May by the City-County Planning Commission of Warren County when they proposed building a satellite location of their Mint Gaming Hall on Bowling Green’s Ken Bale Boulevard, Kentucky Downs owners Marc Falcone and Ron Winchell are back with a new plan.

Through a new Las Vegas-headquartered corporation called ECL BG LLC, Falcone and Winchell filed in July a building permit with the city of Bowling Green that calls for a $6.2 million renovation of the former hh gregg store in the Greenwood Market Place shopping center at 2475 Scottsville Road.