Kiss' restaurant chain Rock & Brews is about to be expanded into a casino complex in Biloxi, Mississippi, according to Ultimate Classic Rock. A partner involved in the project, the RAM Group's Tom Moore, told Casino.org the plans for the casino 'include a 3,000-capacity concert hall, 300-room hotel and a casino with 1,000 slot machines.' The property previously housed a casino owned by Jimmy Buffett under his Margaritaville brand.

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A new casino is coming to my home town but without any tables. Just a racetrack and slots. I want to know: Are the 'GameMakers' set up to make you. A new casino could join Mississippi’s gambling scene if the Biloxi City Council approves next week a proposal for the development of a luxury gaming resort at the site of the city’s former Broadwater Beach Resort. According to a city resolution, developer Broadwater Development LLP wants to invest $1.1 billion into its planned casino scheme.

Funding for the new project is already in place along with site approval being granted. A casino license is expected to be approved in the next few weeks.

A while back, Gene Simmons told us about some prospective business deals he was working on, proving that he has many other interests beyond being a bassist in a legendary rock band: 'There's some real estate deals in China. There are eight different projects -- one is a 55-story skyscraper, a theme park, and lots of other stuff; a cable television network; some stocks. I mean, I can't be too specific about this stuff, but there's a lot of big stuff, any one of which could make Kiss, the entire entity, look like a popcorn fart -- but would be nowhere near as much fun.'

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Guitarist Tommy Thayer gave an update on the upcoming definitive Kiss documentary tentatively due out in 2021. Thayer told Sweden's RockSverige.se, 'I think we're at least halfway into it. The director is John Dorsey and he's done great things before. We've done interviews on camera and he's putting together a lot of historic footage and talking to a lot of different sources, including us and our archives. It's coming along. I've seen a little bit and I think it will be really exciting and really well done.'

Thayer explained that the doc is featuring unique fan sourced footage as well as deep dives from the Kiss vaults: 'We have a lot of great stuff in our archives for certain, but there's still a lot of other unique and rare stuff out there that we don't have. It's a matter of sourcing that stuff.'

Paul Stanley told us he's amazed at how quickly the time has flown since the band started: 'It really has gone by in the blink of an eye. It's staggering to have all the excitement, and the challenges, the victories, the soap operas -- everything. And yet it seems, y'know, like the blink of an eye.'

A $1.1 billion casino resort is proposed at the former Broadwater Beach Resort site in Biloxi.

The Biloxi City Council will be asked to approve a Mississippi tourism rebate incentive for the project Tuesday.

The developers intend to redevelop the 266-acre property with a casino, golf course, hotel, spa and other amenities, according to the city resolution.

It can participate in the Mississippi Tourism Project Incentive Program with a hotel, an indoor or outdoor entertainment center, marina, golf course and the private investment of at least the $10 million required for the tourism incentive the resolution says. A portion of the sales tax generated by the project on what now is empty land would be diverted as an incentive to help cover some of the costs of construction.

The developer, Broadwater Development LLP, expects the resort to create 2,557 full-time and part-time jobs.

The resort would be the most expensive ever built in South Mississippi. The estimated cost of the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino was $750 million to $800 million when Steve Wynn opened it in Biloxi in 1999.

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The proposed Tivoli casino was estimated to cost $1 billion but was never built in Biloxi.

The large Broadwater casino site in west Biloxi was purchased by Roy Anderson III and Cotton Fore shortly before Hurricane Katrina.

Anderson is listed as a partner with Broadwater Development, which was registered with the Mississippi Secretary of State in January 2005.

He told the Sun Herald that more details about the project will be released soon.

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A website for the Broadwater Development provides the history of the Broadwater Beach Hotel and says, “For decades, the Broadwater Beach Resort was the epitome of luxuriousness, trendiness and relaxation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. From famous actors, actresses, politicians, and personalities to middle-class families, thousands flocked from across the country to put the Broadwater’s excellent reputation to the test.”

The resort was built in 1939, when gambling and alcohol sales were illegal in Mississippi, the website says, and had a 600-foot pier on the beach side with an illicit casino.

President Casino opened at the site on the site in August 1992, two weeks after the Isle of Capri became the first legal casino in Mississippi. The $17 million, football-field size floating casino was owned by John Connelly, a colorful promoter who worked as a boxer, the Sun Herald noted.

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