There’s nature on Bossier City’s southern fringes at the Red River National Wildlife Refuge, while the Barksdale Air Force Base will fascinate aviation enthusiasts and has an excellent museum. Income from gaming has financed a series of projects around the city, like the Louisiana Boardwalk outlet mall and the hip new East Bank District, with locally-owned bars and restaurants. '(Cordish) made a great bet on a great city.'Īnd Louisiana Gaming Commission Chairman Ronnie Johns said he believes Cordish's project will actually grow what has been a declining gambling market in Shreveport-Bossier.Sitting on the Red River opposite its sister city, Shreveport, Bossier City is a community of more than 60,000.Ĭombined with its neighbor, this is a gaming hub for the Ark-La-Tex region, with huge, Vegas-style casino resorts lining both banks of the river, interspersed with malls and top-notch family attractions. 'They tried to take this casino from us,' Peacock said. Tammany and Tangipahoa parishes, but voters there turned them away. Barrow Peacock reminded those at the groundbreaking that previous owners of the casino license, one of only 15 available in the state, tried twice to move the casino to St. Sam Jenkins, who won a promotion to the Senate in an election last month, said the number of new jobs created 'will be transformational.'Īnd outgoing state Sen. The company said it has more than $1 billion under construction adjacent to its Texas Live! development alone.īossier City Mayor Thomas Chandler called the project 'the largest venture that has happened in our area in a long time.' John Cordish speaks during the Live! Casino & Hotel Louisiana's groundbreaking ceremony at the former Diamond Jack's Casino location on Wednesday December 13, 2023, in Bossier City.Ĭordish's signature 'Live!' entertainment districts are located in major markets like Arlington, where its Texas Live! district is nestled between the Texas Rangers’ Globe Life Park and the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium and anchored by a Loews hotel.

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