Casino
TWIN ARROWS, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation broke ground Monday on a $150 million casino project along Interstate 40 east of Flagstaff.
The first phase of construction on the Twin Arrows casino is set to begin next month. Tribal officials have planned a July 1, 2012 opening.
The casino is the tribe's first in Arizona. Plans call for a hotel, conference center, spa and golf course at the site.
Navajo President Ben Shelly says tribal officials will hold a job fair to fill the positions. The tribe has a Navajo preference in employment.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — An economist says that for the first time, revenue has fallen at Indian gambling casinos across the country.
Alan Meister says in the latest Indian Gaming Industry Report released Wednesday that casinos generated about $26.4 billion in 2009, down 1 percent from 2008. The decline, he said, was triggered by a recession that forced consumers to cut spending.
The report noted that 237 Indian tribes operated 446 casinos in 28 states. Revenue from food and beverages, lodging, entertainment and shopping declined 4 percent to $3.2 billion in 2009.
FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — The Navajo Nation tribe has broken ground on its third casino.
It's a planned $66 million facility in Upper Fruitland, N.M., located less than one-tenth of a mile from the reservation border and neighboring the city of Farmington.
The Daily Times of Farmington says the groundbreaking ceremony took place Friday.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs on Friday rejected a proposal to build a Native American casino within driving distance of New York City in the storied Catskill mountains.
The decision ends the effort by the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians in Wisconsin to open a casino in the long economically depressed area, once a destination for top celebrities at world-class resorts in what was known as the Borscht Belt.
