Shinnecock Indian Nation Moving Forward with Tribal Casino on New York Long Island
The Shinnecock American Indian Nation on New York’s Long Island revealed this week that it was I of the respondents to the state’s recent petition for selective information (RFI) regarding the potential issuing of ternion downtown commercial-grade casino licenses.
Speaking with The Southampton Press, Shinnecock Tribal Chair Boy Orator of the Platte Polite and Vice Chair Randy B. B. King confirmed that the tribe responded to the state’s RFI for the tierce unawarded commercial gambling casino licenses that were authorised below New York’s 2013 gaming elaboration bill.
The RFI is to beg information from parties interested in developing and/or operating a casino downstate. The 2013 gaming parcel authorised four upstate commercial-grade casinos, and provided those facilities with a monopoly on expansion slot machines and tabularise games until 2023.
State officials are considering starting time the issuance of the tierce downstate cassino licenses in advance of 2023 to reserve the properties to unfastened shortly after the embargo ends.
Long Road for Long Island Casino
The Shinnecock Native American Carry Amelia Moore Nation is set on the eastern remainder of Long Island. The federation of tribes has for years been seeking to build a tribal cassino on its supreme set down inwards say to tell its economic prosperity inward the future.
The tribe is eventually getting closer. Being a federally recognised tribe, the Shinnecock Nation does not demand province or local commendation to deal Class II gaming on its lands.
The US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Native American Affairs has already recognised the tribe’s set ashore into trust, which nearly clears the way of life for the Shinnecocks to establish and operate bingo-based games. Final federal approval is pending an environmental impact write up of the project.
The federation of tribes wants to grow a bingo parlour simply alfresco Southampton Village that would feature article 1,000 picture lottery terminals and 30-table stove poker room. But for traditional expansion slot machines and tabularize games, the federation of tribes must arrive at a Class III gaming powder compact with the state.
Polite and B. B. King say that was unattainable during former Gov. Saint Andrew the Apostle Cuomo’s (D) time inward office. The tribal officials hope for a improve outcome with posing Gov. Kathy Hochul (D).
She seems focussed on getting a lot of these things crosswise the finish line,” explained Polite.
The tribal chairman added that Cuomo was “aggressive toward Amerindic territory” and “never operated inward upright faith.”
Partner Needed
Though the Shinnecock Carry Amelia Moore Nation replied to the New York casino RFI, the odds are long that the tribe testament obtain unity of the trine downstate commercial message licenses. The Native American group is a little community with only when around 1,200 tribal members.
Should the tribe act on ane of the III licenses, it testament live sledding upwardly against massive gaming companies that feature multibillion-dollar market place valuations. Notable RFI respondents include Las Vegas Sands, MGM Resorts, Bally’s, and Hard John Rock International.
Hard Rock, owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, had in agreement(p) inward 2020 to aid the Shinnecock Red Indian Carry Amelia Moore Nation follow up on their gaming dreams inward Long Island. That partnership dissolved, however, as the Seminoles proclaimed inwards February of this twelvemonth that it testament non have any involvement inward the Shinnecock gambling casino moving forward.