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Casino Part of $1B Mall of America Expansion Plan

BLOOMINGTON, MN-The proposed four-million-sf expansion would include a controversial casino, an idea under consideration at the Minnesota Legislature this year. If approved, construction on the second phase could begin this year and be ready late 2007.

By Jim McCartney | Updated on February 17, 2005

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BLOOMINGTON, MN-The Mall of America would double in size and include a huge casino as well as new hotels, department stores and a concert hall under a plan unveiled this week by the mall’s managing partners to city officials. The proposed $1-billion expansion, just north of the mall, would encompass four million sf, according to officials with Triple Five of Minnesota, the managing partner of Mall of America.

The expansion would include three or four hotels, totaling 1,500 rooms. One hotel would have a family-oriented theme with an igloo room, a train room and a Hawaiian room. Other features of the expansion: an NHL-sized ice rink, a 14-screen cinema, a tram to transport customers from the light-rail station to the center of the expansion, and an Italian canal with gondolas surrounded by dancing fountains.

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