A planned Ozark Trail Casino in Cherokee County, Kan., could include a 35,000 square-foot gaming floor with 30 table games and 900 slot machines, said Keith Kocher, gaming facilities director for the Kansas Lottery. His information was from the application filed Monday by Ozark Trail Gaming, a limited liability corporation in Wichita.
Total area of the casino in the first phase of the project is a planned 113,000 square feet. The casino also would include a buffet restaurant, a coffee and pastry shop and an enterainment lounge and bar.
“It appears to me there may be plans for a hotel in a future phase,” Kocher said. “That’s not very firm.”
The state-owned casino is planned near U.S. highways 166 and 400, a mile north of Interstate 44. It also is just north of Downstream Casino Resort, the casino and hotel owned by the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma.
