The Hard Rock Hotel project in Edwardsville, a development worth more than $70 million for which leaders of this western Wyandotte County town had high hopes, faces an uncertain future after its lender abruptly failed to come up with money for a construction loan. … Now construction has stalled and the development is tied up in three different lawsuits in three different states, putting brakes on a project that city leaders hoped would put Edwardsville on the map as a destination among the various attractions already built in western Wyandotte County. … “I’ve felt ever since the early ’90s it was a prime area for development and it really was and it still is,” said Edwardsville Mayor John “Tiny” McTaggart. “It’s just a matter of how this thing unfolds is anyone’s guess. Will the developer prevail in the lawsuit against the investor who bailed? Who knows?”
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