A month ago, we reported on promising polling data related to a transformative casino resort project slated for rural Santee, South Carolina.
As previously reported, plans are in the works to build a state-of-the-art, high-end casino development in this town of approximately 1,000 people located southwest of Lake Marion in Orangeburg County. This facility would include a 300,000- to 400,000-square-foot casino tethered to a 300- to 600-room luxury hotel and convention center on approximately forty acres near Interstate 95.
The brainchild of Greenville, S.C. businessman Wallace Cheves, the Santee project – which is not seeking taxpayer subsidies – would create several thousand jobs and generate an estimated $8 billion in new economic activity over its first decade of operation.
