Echo Entertainment Group could back a plan to mark the site recognised as the "birthplace of Brisbane" as part of its bid to win a second casino licence in the Australian city.
Echo currently operates Treasury Casino in the Queensland Treasury Building but wants to expand into a new casino somewhere between George Street and William Street.
The chief executive of Echo, John Redmond, who has managed casinos in Las Vegas for Caesars Palace and MGM Grand, said Echo wanted to use Brisbane's heritage to attract people to the city and potentially his firm's casino.
Queensland's National Trust and the Royal Historical Society want to recognise a triangular area between three of Brisbane's oldest sites: Queens Wharf Road (1823), the old Immigration Building (1866) and the Commissariat Store (1829) on William Street.
Redmond said he had already met with National Trust executive director Stewart Armstrong to discuss several heritage issues. He said Echo wanted to make the George and William Street precinct "an amazing tourist driver and attraction.
"It is something I would most assuredly take a look at and see if there is a way to make that part of the solution," he said.
