Trump deal for casino still uncertain
Thursday, Sept. 2, 1999 | 11:41 a.m.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - What are the odds that The Donald is coming to Kansas City? It's still up in the air.
Under the terms of the $15 million deal that Donald Trump reached in January to buy the Flamingo Hilton Casino in Kansas City, either party could walk away from the deal if it didn't close by midnight Aug. 31.
The deal, however, is still bogged down in background checks at the Missouri Gaming Commission.
Now the deadline has come and gone, and Hilton is rumored to be quietly shopping the property to parties other than Trump.
Both companies, however, are maintaining poker faces. Neither would comment last week on the approaching deadline. Neither returned calls Wednesday.
A Hilton subsidiary still owns the Kansas City casino despite spinning off virtually all of the rest of its far-flung casino empire into Las Vegas-based Park Place Entertainment Inc. last year.
"We haven't heard anything from either company," Harold Bailey, a spokesman for the Gaming Commission, said. "We're not at this time ready to make a recommendation to the commissioners regarding (Trump's) suitability to do business in the state."
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