{"id":465785,"date":"2026-09-16T17:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T17:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465785\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T17:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T17:06:15","slug":"california-golden-west-casino-puts-construction-project-north-of-bakersfield-on-hold-cdc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465785\/","title":{"rendered":"California: Golden West Casino puts construction project north of Bakersfield on hold \u2013 CDC Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a class=\"back-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2190 Back to Newsroom<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\nWednesday, September 16, 2026 12:17 PM<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/delete-75.jpg\" class=\"no-lazy \" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image aggregated from KGET.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Generic-Author.jpg\"\/>Robert Price, KGET\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Email, LinkedIn, and more<\/p>\n<p>Golden West Casino\u2019s move from South Union Avenue, south of the city, to Merle Haggard Drive, north of the city, has been postponed indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Golden West Casino Owner Franklyn Elfend had planned to move the cardroom to a near-31,000-square-foot building to be constructed near Meadow Field Airport in November 2025, but legal and competitive concerns led him to decide on the delay.<\/p>\n<p>Primarily, it\u2019s the uncertainty over Senate Bill 549 and subsequent legal action by the state Department of Justice, either of which would have restricted cardrooms\u2019 ability to offer certain games, including blackjack. The cardroom industry has since won two legal victories that paused those developments for now.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\/news\/local-news\/golden-west-casino-puts-construction-project-north-of-bakersfield-on-hold\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Article continues on KGET\u00a0\u2b95<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\/news\/local-news\/golden-west-casino-puts-construction-project-north-of-bakersfield-on-hold\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"osButton button\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/out\/139307\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"notrack\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Cdc search\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cdc-search-20260617.jpg\" alt=\"Cdc search\" class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"720\" height=\"120\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2190 Back to Newsroom Wednesday, September 16, 2026 12:17 PM Image aggregated from KGET. Robert Price, KGET Email,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,82742,11104,7479],"class_list":["post-465785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-cardrooms","tag-expansion","tag-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}