The Missouri River Historical Development board, a neighborhood nonprofit, voted Wednesday evening to back a proposal from Warner Gaming, the Las Vegas-based developer behind a chain of Hard Rock casinos, hotels and restaurants, said Mayor Bob Scott.

The proposal calls for any one hundred,000-square-foot Hard Rock entertainment center with a casino, various restaurants and a 400- to 500-seat theater but no hotel, Scott said. The casino would residence about $25 million worth of games which include about 800 slot machines and 32 gaming tables. In all, it would employ an estimated 500 individuals, he said.

It would replace the docked riverboat casino Argosy Sioux City. Following the city voted in August on a zoning transform to allow a land-based casino, the improvement, which holds a gambling license for Woodbury County, started accepting applications to get a bigger, a lot more lucrative casino.

Casino developers as well as the board nonetheless should get a new license from the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission.

Scott said the casino, with well-recognized name and rock and roll memorabilia hanging from the walls, would be a feather within the city’s cap. It would be the only Hard Rock casino among Chicago and Las Vegas.

“This distinct brand name is one I think everyone knows,” he mentioned.

The downtown casino will consist of a part of Battery Constructing, a four-story brick constructing and clock tower close to the banks from the Missouri River that not too long ago landed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Preserving the century-old constructing is vital for city leaders, Scott mentioned.

The Missouri River Historical Improvement board had also regarded as a casino proposal from the Ho-Chunk Inc., an economic improvement arm of your Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, Scott mentioned.

The Sioux City Hard Rock casino proposal comes amid a tiny flurry of casino proposals in Iowa. A proposal to get a $150 million Urbandale hotel-casino surfaced and after that was dropped in latest weeks, as well as the Cedar Rapids City Council has mentioned it supports nearby efforts to get a license and build a casino there.