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Mississippi Casino Plan Finally Approved

JACKSON, Mississippi – As reported by the Mississippi Sun Herald: "Plans for a casino in D'Iberville, after nearly a decade of wrangling with environmental and other issues, cleared a final governmental hurdle on Thursday, with Secretary of State Eric Clark announcing he and developers had reached a lease agreement on public tidelands the project will occupy.

"…Sen. Tommy Gollott, D-Biloxi, and others over the past few days helped work out a deal between Clark and the development. Gollott said he, D'Iberville Mayor Rusty Quave, Mark Seymour Sr., who owns some of the property where the casino will be located, and secretary of state's staff have met for the past few days and an agreement was struck either late Wednesday or early Thursday.

"…Gollott said the agreement was for about 24,000 square feet of tidelands. Clark said payments and other details of the lease will not be released until lawyers can draft official documents…"

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