“I’m going to do everything I can to make sure that contract stays intact. We are working together going forward,” the governor explained.<\/p>\n
That isn’t good news for MGM, which proposed a $675 million casino complex in Bridgeport last year. The bid was in response to Connecticut signing off in 2017 on allowing the tribes to build a satellite casino in East Windsor \u2013 just 13 miles south across the Connecticut-Massachusetts border from MGM’s $960 million Springfield casino.<\/p>\n
After months of delays by the US Department of the Interior, which refused to approve or deny the state’s amendments to its gaming compacts with the tribes, the federal agency finally gave the greenlight for the East Windsor development in March 2019.<\/p>\n
The tribes \u2013 and Connecticut’s congressional delegation \u2013 blamed the delay on lobbying by MGM.<\/p>\n
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With federal authorization, the tribes paid the state $1 million to help offset regulatory costs, and is moving forward with construction. The satellite \u2013 known as Tribal Winds \u2013 is a $300 million casino that will offer 1,800 slots and 60 tables.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The casino on non-sovereign land is designed to keep critical slot revenue in the state, and away from MGM Springfield. Connecticut coffers receive 25 percent of the tribes’ slot win. That total has plummeted from $430 million in 2007 to $263.6 million last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Connecticut’s two tribes and officials in Bridgeport are in discussions to bring a $350 million integrated casino resort to the seaport city. The Connecticut Post broke the news that Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim (D), several state legislators, and tribal officials representing the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes held several meetings this week to negotiation a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":106105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,18456],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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