The settlement comes from a pool of money secured by a bankruptcy trustee, as ordered by a federal judge in 2014.
'We were handed lemons and made some pretty tasty lemonade,' he said of the entertainment district, which opened in 2012. We were never going to recoup the legal fees, but it's better than getting nothing.' 'But we have a parking garage as an asset. 'We were in a negative position cash-wise,' said Mayor Brad Stephens. The garage has unused elevator shafts that were intended to transfer casino money to armored vehicles. That Williams Street garage today serves the 200,000-square-foot Parkway Bank Park village entertainment district, much of it on the site envisioned for the casino. The town spent another $10 million in legal fees over the last two decades, as its attorneys sought to recoup construction costs mostly related to the village's building of a 7-level, 8,500-space parking garage for a casino that never materialized.
