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Honestly if we can get a tall building with some interesting unique architecture I would be very pro of a downtown casino, perhaps in the south loop to give the area a height/density boost and attract more hotels and commerce (motor row?). I like the potential of MGM, City Center and their Macau properties are all quite nice in design and execution. Wynn I'm afraid will give me their standard red tinted glass curved high rise like Vegas and Macau. The team with the Rivers owner I feel like we'd get a very generic build. I could be very wrong of course.

I don't know much about casino ops, but say a developer gets it, would they build it out and then lease it to probably one of the operators listed above? or would the developer try to run their own casino? in this case would an established major brand be the best bet for a properly run facility?

The only other downtown casino I've personally seen is the Jack in Cleveland and it wasn't the best.