Casino May Be In The Cards For Hercules - 2004-01-06
Although city officials and a casino promoter have silenced rumors of an American Indian casino in Franklin Canyon, a developer says he was approached about it more than four months ago and that the proposal is very much alive. Peter Kiesecker, president of GreenPark Holdings LLC of Seal Beach, says real estate broker John Troughton
first approached him with the idea in late August.
GreenPark has an application before the city to build more than 500 homes, a hotel, offices and stores in Franklin Canyon. Troughton, whose firm, Cushman & Wakefield, has an exclusive brokerage agreement with the city's Redevelopment Agency, is shopping around Contra Costa County for a casino venue for the Guidiville Band of Pomo Indians; an attempt to find one in Antioch failed.
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