He also said North Carolina could commercialize casinos and he has heard about talks to add several casinos in North Carolina that would compete with casinos in Virginia. We don’t want to build something so big that even though you’ve got 1,000 patrons in there, it looks empty, so we’re gonna have to adjust to the market, and be more marketable.” “I feel like our philosophy six months ago was ‘build it and they will come.’ But now that we’re going to (possibly) be surrounded by competition, we have to do it the right way. The Catawbas opened the casino in July of 2021.
