Louisiana casino regulators have approved a $181 million plan to build a sixth riverboat casino-hotel in the Shreveport-Bossier City market. A group known as Bossier City Casino Venture is buying one of the two riverboat licenses in Lake Charles now owned by Isle of Capri Casinos. The group is planning a one-story casino boat to be built on its Red River site in Bossier City, along with a 396-room hotel. Plans call for the project to open in May 2013. The Louisiana Gaming Control Board approved the project without objection today. Voters in Bossier Parish must approve it in a Nov. 19 referendum. The Isle of Capri will be shutting down its Crown Casino in Lake Charles; the company also owns the Grand Palais riverboat casino in that city.
Casino regulators approve riverboat move
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