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Major Indian Casino Resort Planned by Developers in Yuba County, Calif.

The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, CA)

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Byline: Peter Hecht

Jul. 4--Developers of a planned Yuba County auto raceway have joined with an Oroville tribal group and are now planning to develop a major Indian casino resort on a racetrack site that the rural county has looked to for economic salvation.

Officials and residents in the hard-pressed county north of Sacramento had pinned their economic hopes on development of the racetrack, which promised to pack fans into a 45,000-seat grandstand to watch Indy-style racing events.

But the $100 million racetrack venture -- supported by 86 percent of local voters who backed a ballot measure to rezone 900 acres of agricultural land as a "sports and entertainment zone" -- never got off the ground.

Officials of Chicago-based Forsythe Racing Inc. say they are still committed to…

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