Turtle Mountain Tribe in Talks With Mississippi Casino
The chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa says the tribe is discussing a project in Mississippi while it seeks to build a casino on the edge of this city.
"We're in the very early preliminary discussion," Tribal Chairman Ken Davis said of the Mississippi casino project. He declined to discuss details. Fred Hayne, the marketing director for Myriad Golf, said his company, based in Edmonton, Alberta, is working out the details of a $40 million land purchase for a Turtle Mountain casino in Tunica Resorts.
He said his company has similar deals in the works with North Dakota's Three Affiliated Tribes and a firm called High Plains Equity. The three casinos, Hayne said, would join three others run by Myriad as part of a $1.9 billion resort that would include an indoor 18-hole golf course, a skiing hill, a water park, convention and theater space and a huge indoor botanical garden.
Bill Johnson, a consultant for the tribe on the Grand Forks project, said he has heard little about the Tunica deal and said he thought it was somewhat of a "fantasy."
June 16, 2006
Posted By Bob Hartman
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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