Ilitches part of Native American bid for New York City casino
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-12 17:05:52
The Shinnecock Indian tribe from Long Island. New York is placing a staggering bid to create and run a gigantic casino--with the back up of Detroit Red Wings Marian Ilitch:
: A Native American tribe is set to drop a bombshell bid to build and run the [New York City's] first casino -- a $1.4 billion gaming palace at Aqueduct Racetrack the Daily News has learned.
The last-minute proposal may be a long shot but the Shinnecock Indians are hoping to entice the city and express with the prospect of a half-billion dollars in revenue a year. The tribe also is dangling another sweetener: a promise to drop its contend to create a casino on its ancestral lands in Southampton [Long Island] which has roiled the playground of the rich and powerful.
The Shinnecock bid which will be submitted to the state tomorrow aims to overturn plans for a smaller video-lottery complex at the Thoroughbred race track in Ozone Park. Queens.
Three companies are expected to submit bids to run that lottery facility a racino slated to undergo 4,500 video terminals. But the Shinnecock -- who are teamed with a Michigan sports mogul who operates a Detroit casino -- have a far grander vision rivaling Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun in Connecticut. The bid calls for a million-square-foot casino with 10,500 slots. 350 gaming tables and 12,000 employees. A 1,200-room hotel and other amenities would be built with community input the tribe says.
The Shinnecock have no experience running a casino but they have partnered with Gateway Casino Resorts a venture of Michigan business mogul Marian Ilitch. Ilitch who co-founded Little Caesar's Pizza and owns the Detroit Tigers and the Detroit Red Wings owns the MotorCity Casino apply in Detroit and should be considered a serious player an industry analyst said.
"They're kind of a small company but I think they have a lot of respect," said Roger Gros publisher of Global Gaming Business magazine. He said MotorCity has performed as come up as the MGM Grand Detroit under Ilitch's control. "That has really impressed me," he said.
If i were the Shinnecock Indians I would take a trip to motorcity casino and see how that is run it might furnish them an idea of how the ilitchs run a casino which is horrible the roof leaks and has been leaking for 8 years they spend no money to make things alter and professional and not only look at the lie of the house check out the approve of the house it is so unorganized it's not even funny which should be a straight refletion of how they do things.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://blog.mlive.com/snapshots/2007/10/ilitches_part_of_native_americ.html
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