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21 March 2006
Blues Anger At City's Casino
Bid
Birmingham
City Football Club's managing director has hit out at the
city council after it rejected the club's super
casino
bid.
The council is supporting
a rival application for a casino licence at the National
Exhibition Centre (NEC).
Karen Brady said it "might
have cost" the city the chance of a super casino and the
regeneration it would bring. But a council spokesman said it
is confident the NEC will bring benefits to both the city
and the wider region.
Mrs Brady said: "I am
hugely disappointed. In their blind pursuit to save the NEC,
the council might have cost Birmingham the chance of having
the super casino and all the regeneration that would have
brought."
The football club had
hoped to move to a new stadium in Saltley but needed a
casino licence to help finance the switch.
Council backing for such a
licence went to the NEC - its bid being submitted by
Solihull Council.
Council leader Mike Whitby
said: "We believe that in recommending the NEC bid we have
created the best opportunity of winning the bid for a
regional super casino for the city region. We will be
working closely with our partners in Solihull and other
local authorities to ensure the NEC bid is the best for
Birmingham and the best for the region. We are confident in
the benefits it will bring to our city and the wider city
region. Through the regeneration benefits a successful NEC
bid will bring, we hope to construct a City of Birmingham
Stadium and a sports village that will boost Birmingham's
national and international reputation."
Culture Secretary Tessa
Jowell is due to specify areas for one super casino and 16
other smaller ones in 2007.
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NEC
Bid Leads Birmingham Super Casino
Race
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Of Directors Back NEC Super
Casino
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