Wisconsin: Ho-Chunk casino project to be built in ‘two stages’

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 3:45 PM
Photo:  Ho-Chunk Nation (courtesy)
  • Alex Gary, Beloit Daily News

The Beloit City Council Monday night unanimously approved a Planned Unit Development master plan for a Ho-Chunk casino, hotel and conference center to be built near Interstate 90.

The vote was 6-0 with councilman Kevin Day recusing himself. Day works for Corporate Contractors Inc., which is one of the major contractors associated with the project.

The 66-page PUD puts in writing agreements between the city and the Ho-Chunk Nation about such things as lighting, signs, sewer, parking, road access and building heights at the site near Willowbrook Road and Colley Road.

The way Monday’s agreement was worded, confused some who read the meeting agenda packet online. In the notes, it said that “the applicant has proposed the construction of a casino, surface parking and central plant building, along with a future conference center, future hotel and future parking garage.”