Also listed as a manager of E5 Holdings, in Nevada filings, is a company called CHT Enterprises LLC.Ĭorporate paperwork for CHT Enterprises, filed in Nevada, list that company’s managers as Blue Sky Companies, Wallace Cheves’ firm Jackpot Gaming LLC, a company with multiple links to Cheves and Darrell Hardin, a Gastonia man with numerous ties to the casino industry and Cheves.ĬHT Enterprises is also listed in corporate paperwork, filed in Florida, as managing two firms that are among the biggest landowners around the Two Kings casino site, according to Cleveland County property records. They are Cleveland County business owners who previously contributed thousands of dollars to Holbrook’s 2018 campaign for county commission.

So just know that the dollar will drive the development.Listed as managers of E5 Holdings along with Holbrook are Douglas Brown and Stuart LeGrand. “If times get tougher, economy tightens up, it will effect the phases. So yes, Catawba is going to benefit from this, the citizens of Catawba are going to benefit from this,” Harris said.

“This is an economically depleted area of North Carolina. Then, about 18 more months of work for the full resort to be complete. not only does that effect Catawba, but it effects this area.”ĭevelopers say this will start with a temporary casino, with slots and other games opening first. ”We’re going to be able to put schools on our reservation because we didn’t have economic development to develop that,” Harris said. They say the project will create about 4,000 new jobs and provide economic benefits for Cleveland County and for South Carolina, where the Catawba Nation calls home. 5:30 on /5XCkLlDzyg- Amanda Foster WBTV July 22, 2020 'If we have an opportunity to right a wrong, step toward it.'Ĭatawba Nation breaks ground on new casino in Kings Mountain.Ĭomes after a lawsuit against the project by the Eastern Band of Cherokees, who run their own casinos in western NC.

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