Thursday, November 13, 2014
By Joshua Dixon
Staff Writer
Posted Nov. 13, 2014 @ 12:01 am
Five months ago, Shawn Smyth left his retirement home in Florida to move to Minnesota and supervise the final stages of Jackpot Junction’s remodeling. “I’ve been in the casino business since I was 17 years, and I just turned 66,” said Smyth, Jackpot’s general manager. “I’ve supervised over 20 major casino expansions, and this is by far the most complicated. There are seven separate phases we have to get through. The early phases were the infrastructure ones the public didn’t see.” And how is...