Harvey’s Casino Resorts plans to buy and operate Bluffs Run Casino inCouncil Bluffs for 165-million dollars. It’d give Harvey’s two of the threecasinos in Iowa’s biggest gaming market.Jim Rafferty, Harvey’s senior vice president of marketing, says the deal hasbeen in the works for several months.Rafferty says Bluffs Run includes a greyhound track and casino that attractsabout four-million people a year.Bluffs Run is being sold by the nonprofit group Iowa West RacingAssociation. Its parent company, the Iowa West Foundation, is reportedlyslated to get about 115-million from the sale for civic & charity projects.
