On the Las Vegas Strip, the casino department is now more of an amenity than a profit center. Sixty-six percent of the earnings from the 24 larger Strip casino resorts come from the rooms department, food and beverage, entertainment, banquets and meeting/exhibit space rentals. Only 34 percent come from casino operations. That's not true in other casino resorts, like Biloxi or Atlantic City, where in AC, the casino department still produces over 90 percent of the resort’s profits.

But AC has no commercial air service, except flights that take South Jersey and Philadelphia residents on bargain flights to Florida or the Caribbean.

A major casino attraction in Downtown Atlanta would bring millions of tourists along with millions of new attendees to area conventions and other events which would benefit area restaurants, entertainment, Atlanta's zoo and aquarium, the city's sports stadiums, and arenas, and would provide upwards of 10 thousand new jobs. But best of all, casino gaming would provide hundreds of millions of dollars of new tax revenue, annually, to support the Hope Scholarship program.