Tribal Winds was planned for the former Showcase Cinema site, located just off Interstate 91. It’s a prime piece of real estate, but it is delivering far fewer property taxes to the town since its movie theater closed and the venue was demolished.<\/p>\n
\n
The vacant theater complex still delivered East Windsor roughly $130,000 a year in property taxes after Showcase closed in 2008. But that number diminished to $80,000 after the tribes demolished the building to make way for its casino.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
East Windsor First Selectman Jason Bowsza says the town wants the tribes to develop the property into something like apartments or a big-box store, or sell it to someone who will.<\/p>\n
As for Osten’s budget proposal, Bowsza says he appreciates the senator keeping in mind East Windsor’s loss in the new gaming compacts. But he also doesn’t want the site to remain vacant for 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Connecticut lawmakers are considering allocating millions of dollars annually to East Windsor after the town lost out in the state’s expansion of tribal gaming. Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) last month signed new Class III gaming compacts that allow the state’s two federally recognized tribes to add online gambling and mobile sports betting. The contracts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":176349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18456],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Connecticut Budget Bill Could Set Aside Money for East Windsor<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n