Baer To Pursue Themed Casino - 2004-01-01
Former TV star and Lake Tahoe resident Max Baer Jr. promised Tuesday to pursue development of his “Beverly Hillbillies”-themed hotel and casino in Carson City, despite resistance from his neighbors in the shopping center site.
“I am reasonably persistent,” Baer told a group of about 100 Carson City Rotary Club members. “My intention has always been to put that project there, and I am going to do it. I own the property and I will put nothing else there.” Plans for Baer's $54 million project, to be called Jethro's Beverly Hillbillies Mansion & Casino, include 240 hotel rooms, a theater, restaurants and a 200-foot-tall flaming oil derrick at its entrance along U.S. 395 at the Southgate shopping complex.
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