Demolition is nearly complete at the long-shuttered Diamond Jacks Casino hotel in Bossier City, where the riverboat that housed the casino has also been sold for scrap and will be cut up and hauled off of the property by trucks, Louisiana Gaming Control Board Chairman Ronnie Johns said.
That sets the stage for the expected approval of the sale of the property and accompanying gaming license to Cordish, a family-owned company headquartered in Baltimore with extensive international operations in gaming.
The Gaming Control Board gave its approval last spring for Cordish to advance with an agreement to buy Diamond Jacks from Foundation Gaming, which had just won approval for its purchase of the abandoned property in December 2022.
