The existing compact authorizes the tribe to operate one Class III gaming facility on trust lands near Manistee.
The tribe’s second casino requires federal and state approvals, including amending its existing state gaming compact. The new $180 million project aims to build a 69,000-square-foot casino and 220-room hotel in the Fruitport Township in Muskegon County, using property that was once the Great Lake Downs racetrack. The casino in question would be the second within for the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians. Roger Hauck, opposes attempts to build casinos outside of the original gaming compacts established between tribes and the state of Michigan. The resolution, introduced by Republican State Rep. Michigan legislators passed a resolution against “unchecked proliferation of off reservation gaming” last week that could imperil a proposed tribal casino in Muskegon County.
