The group that oversees the LST 325, a troop landing ship which took part in the 1944 D-Day landings in France, has been seeking a new location to attract more visitors. Tropicana's deal with the city calls for it to contribute $1 million toward moving a restored World War II ship from its current dock upriver from downtown Evansville to the site of the current riverboat casino. 'I suspect this will be first of several casinos around the state that will make the move to try to go on land,' Winnecke said. The new law gives the 10 riverboats along Lake Michigan and the Ohio River the option to build new on-land casinos, which the state already has with the French Lick casino in southern Indiana and two horse track casinos in Anderson and Shelbyville near Indianapolis.Įvansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke said he believes the law change puts Indiana's casinos on a 'more level playing field' with competitors in other states. Indiana's casinos have seen big declines in business and the loss of hundreds of jobs in recent years as more gambling options have become available in Ohio, Michigan and Illinois.

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