Pinnacle Entertainment won its bid to locate its casino, entertainment, and mixed commercial development on the Mississippi riverfront in the Lemay area of south St. Louis County. This site was formerly occupied by National Lead Industries (NLI) and National Imaging & Mapping Agency (NIMA). Long vacant, these former industrial sites linked the River to Interstate 55.

Locally Pinnacle Entertainment owns Ameristar Casino in St. Charles and River City Casino in Lemay. Penn National runs the Hollywood Casino in Maryland Heights and Casino Argosy Alton. Pinnacle Entertainment announced today that it plans to add a 200-room hotel and 10,000-square foot event center at the River City Casino in south St. The $82 million project also. Pinnacle Entertainment - River City Casino Feb 2010 – Present 10 years 6 months Deals blackjack and other casino games according to house procedures in a high pressure environment. River City Casino About the Property Pinnacle Entertainment’s new entertainment district in south St. Louis County straddles the frontier between the County and the City of St. Overlooking the Mississippi River, the site rests just south of the confluence of the Mighty Mississippi and the River des Peres. In 1700, French Jesuits established a.

EOI generated a successful application for Missouri Department of Economic Development Brownfield Redevelopment tax credits, totaling approximately $20 million. EOI developed remedial options within the guidelines of Missouri’s voluntary cleanup program and new risk-based corrective action regulations, using institutional controls, engineered barriers, and engineered cells, as well as traditional excavation, removal, and disposal.

EOI designed a comprehensive risk transfer program, structured so that EOI assumed the financial risk for cost overruns arising from known conditions, as well as unexpected costs incurred because of unforeseen conditions. This arrangement indemnified the developer and the municipality, and allowed the project to move forward.

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The casino complex was completed in early 2010. The Grand Opening was in March 2010. This long vacant and contaminated site is now occupied by a $400 million gaming, entertainment, and mixed-use development providing 1,100 jobs. Phase II of the project (including hotel, retail, entertainment and convention/meeting space) will be completed within three years and is anticipated to create an additional 900 jobs.

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In 2011, the project was honored with a Phoenix Award, a national award honoring notable Brownfield projects as models and inspiration for urban redevelopment.