As reported by the Daily Inter Lake News: “How close should casinos be to
Kalispell’s parks, schools and churches? “The Kalispell Planning Board
wrestled Tuesday with two aspects of that question, deciding to recommend
that the City Council: “-Keep the current legal 300-foot buffer and have the
city staff explore creating exemptions if a four-lane highway, river,
airport or other barriers are located between a casino and a church, park or
school.
“-Set up a planned-unit-development zone at the old Montana National Guard
armory to allow a Hilton Garden hotel-conference-restaurant-casino complex
to be built there.

“.Both recommendations have an intertwined history with the Hilton Garden
project.

“The city is seriously considering selling the 3.4-acre armory site to an
Ohio development company, Gateway Hospitality Group, for $1.216 million.”