Florida Lawmakers Won’t Take Up Fontainebleau, Trump Doral Casino Proposals

Neither the Fontainebleau Resort nor Trump National Doral is in product line to get casino licenses when Sunshine State lawmakers reconvene for a special session later this month.

Senate President Wilton carpet Simpson, R-Spring Hill, barb mastered those possibilities inwards an question Friday with CBS Miami.

I manage not guess that that’s being contemplated inward this special session,” Simpson said. “Actually, i know it’s not. We position come out the call up yesterday and it would prohibit that typewrite of activity.”

The make a motion is seen as a bigger bump for Fontainebleau possessor Jeffrey Soffer than former President Trump. Soffer has reportedly courted lawmakers for the power to transference the permit he owns for the Big Easy Casino inward Hallandale Beach to his posh Miami Beach resort.

Earlier this year, The Miami Herald reported Soffer hosted fundraisers and events for GOP lawmakers from his $272 meg yacht.

Seminole Compact Main Issue of Special Session

With the Fontainebleau and Doral news, it agency the upcoming special session will focalize only if on gaming-related matters pertaining to the Seminole Tribe of Sunshine State and the late signed pack between tribal leaders and Gov. Daffo DeSantis.

Under the agreement, the Seminoles would support scoop sports betting rights for 30 years. The tribe’s vii Everglade State casinos also would follow allowed to tender caps and roulette.

Over the next V years, the res publica would invite a warrant of at to the lowest degree $500 trillion annually.

In addition to approbatory the compact, lawmakers are potential to occupy upward legislation that would earmark pari-mutuel licensees, such as jai alai frontons and draw rein and quarter-horse tracks, to “decouple,” or noneffervescent extend casino-style gaming piece not offering races or jai alai matches.

Lawmakers will also be asked to take establishing a state gaming curb commission.

The special session is scheduled to pop out a week from Monday. In a memoranda sent in conclusion hebdomad to senators, Mrs. Simpson advised his colleagues and their faculty they are expected to rest inward Tallahassee until the session concludes.

Even if lawmakers approve the gaming pack in the special session, some make questioned the deal and said that it would ease require voter approval.

Soffer Going (Back) to Las Vegas

While Soffer may non be getting his want to displace his gambling casino certify to his posh Miami Beach resort, he’s still getting inwards on another cassino project.

Actually, he’s getting plunk for inwards a project he started to a greater extent than a decennary and a half ago.

In February, Robert Koch Real Estate Investments proclaimed it had partnered with Fontainebleau Development to purchase the Las Vegas Strip project currently known as The Drew.

However, 16 years ago, Soffer and his team up unveiled plans to establish a Las Vegas edition of the Fontainebleau. His companion bought a nearly quartet acre lot for $97 meg in Mar 2005, with building put to work starting deuce years later.

Plans called for the Las Vegas Fontainebleau to have about 2,900 hotel rooms with a 95,000-square-foot casino and other amenities.

The project, though, drop through after Bank of America withdrew its financial living during the Great Recession.