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by Liz Swaine, The Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate
The money is in place, the land has been acquired, contractor Boggs and Poole is ready to roll, and after three years of planning, the 27-acre, $25 million Chasing Aces entertainment complex adjacent to Margaritaville on the Bossier riverfront is about to light the afterburners.
Friday, February 9 will be the ceremonial groundbreaking on a project that owner John Dudley says most people thought never would happen and that none of the banks he talked to would loan him money for. “I got no after no after no,” Dudley said. “I got turned down 86 times. I went to every local bank here.” In recounting one pitch meeting that he thought had gone well, a partner shared that one of the bankers who was out of his line of sight during the presentation fell asleep. “We walked into the bank with a cashier’s check for $4 million and he falls asleep! There is nobody in this city that believed in me,” Dudley said. “and you can write that down.”
