Tribe promises to retain staff at Indiana casino
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, which is expected to become the new owner of a Caesars casino in Indiana, has said it intends to retain the staff once it takes over operations.
US.- The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the tribe that is expected to take over Caesars’ casino in Southern Indiana, has said that if regulators approve its ownership it will retain all 700-plus employees at the venue.
According to The News and Tribune, the tribe expects the Indiana Gaming Commission to approve its ownership of the casino in autumn. The venue is located in the Harrison County town of Elizabeth across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky.
The North Carolina-based tribe also announced that it’s created EBCI Holdings LLC as the casino’s ownership group. Its CEO would be R. Scott Barber, the former regional president of Caesars Entertainment.
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Barber said in a press release: “Caesars Southern Indiana is a beautiful facility with a well-established brand and a superb team of hundreds of local employees already in place. We want to keep the same friendly, fun, familiar environment for our guests”.
The casino moved from a riverboat casino to a new, $85m building in late 2019. That building features 100,000-square-feet (9,290-square-meters) of gambling space.
