Progress at the HeadWaters construction site isn’t moving nearly as quickly as in Portsmouth. Local officials say the roughly 13.5 acres of land next to Harbor Park, which is currently a concrete parking lot, is in poor condition.<\/p>\n
\nYou can literally fall through some of it,”<\/strong> said Norfolk’s Director of Economic Development Jared Chalk. He says allowing HeadWaters to operate a pop-up gaming space inside Harbor Park makes sense.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n“A temporary facility where you can go and play slots and get your players club card and whatnot,” Chalk detailed.<\/p>\n
The Norfolk Boxing and Fitness Center has sat closed since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The city-owned business says it has no current plans to reopen the 13,000-square-foot center.<\/p>\n
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Yarbrough made his billions developing tribal gaming machines. He sold his firm — Video Gaming Technologies — in 2014. Forbes <\/i>estimates his net worth at $3.1 billion.<\/p>\n\n
Yarbrough and Pamunkey Indians are bringing in another major industry player to build HeadWaters. The group announced last fall that it’s pairing national construction firm Suffolk with Hampton Roads-based W.M. Jordan Company to build the $500 million resort.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Suffolk’s deep history in the gaming and hospitality industries is headlined by the firm constructing the now-iconic 36-story guitar tower at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida.<\/p>\n
Suffolk’s recent gaming portfolio additionally includes Encore Boston Harbor in Massachusetts and Saracen Casino in Arkansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Norfolk Boxing and Fitness Center, located inside Harbor Park, could become the site of the Virginia city’s first commercial casino. Norfolk is one of five cities that qualified under 2020 legislation to consider a commercial casino development. Virginia decided to end its decades of prohibiting nearly all forms of gambling in an effort to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":204149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,13592],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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