Churchill Downs

The $240 million investment will include 1,000 slots, 50 table games, 125 luxury hotel rooms, five restaurants and bars and TwinSpires sports betting according to the Churchill Downs Incorporated website.

The company selected to open a new casino in Terre Haute said it could start construction work on the project as soon as late May.

Mayor Duke Bennett says it’s a couple blocks from the original location near I-70 on the city’s east side.

A lawsuit challenging the selection of a company to build a new Terre Haute casino has been dropped, clearing a hurdle for the stalled project.

Full House Resorts claims in a lawsuit that the Indiana Gaming Commission wrongly considered suggestions from Churchill Downs, which was chosen for the project.

Terre Haute is finally back on track to get a casino more than two years after the legislature made it possible.