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The federal government has approved a planned casino in East Windsor, Connecticut after years of delay. The Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes are now moving forward with construction.
The state’s two federally recognized tribes want to open the casino -- called Tribal Winds -- to compete against the MGM casino that opened last year in Springfield, Massachusetts.
MGM Resorts International has made good on its threat to pursue litigation to prevent the opening of an East Windsor casino operated by the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes. The East Windsor location, picked by the tribes for its proximity 13 miles south of the 1-year-old MGM Springfield casino, is neither. “The amendments thus confer a statewide, perpetual competitive advantage to the joint venture, MMCT,” the MGM lawsuit says, referring to the tribes’ business entity. EAST WINDSOR, Conn. — The Mohegans and Mashantucket Pequots once said Tribal Winds, envisioned as a competitor to the MGM Springfield casino, could be open in 2020. Now 2020 is here, but the Tribal. East Hartford, Ellington, Enfield, South Windsor, Windsor Locks, and Hartford are slated to each receive $750,000 annually from the tribes as compensation for impacts to those communities. The Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes are now dropping their plans temporarily to build an East Windsor casino, which is what Gov. Ned Lamont wanted as part of a broader solution on sports betting and gambling issues across the state.
State Senator Cathy Osten represents the district that includes the tribes’ two existing casinos, Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun.
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“I’m very happy that finally we’ve got a decision. I can’t wait to get out there to cut the ribbon as people pour into Tribal Winds”, she said.
Osten is the co-sponsor of a bill that would allow the casino to open without federal approval. She says that bill will likely not go up for a vote since it’s now moot.
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Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke had blocked the casino. Zinke stepped down earlier this year and is now under federal investigation.