Mashantucket Pequot

Neither MGM, which has been pushing for open bidding in Connecticut and has a plan for Bridgeport, nor the Mashantucket Pequots and Mohegans were happy with the result. MGM said it planned to continue to fight for true open competition, which would mean eliminating East Windsor. The tribes say ...

That environment includes Connecticut, where the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes plan to jointly develop a "satellite" casino in East Windsor to protect their Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun casinos from the impact of a resort facility under construction in Springfield, Mass. The upstate New York ...

Connecticut's Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes have raised concerns that a proposed Bridgeport-New Haven resort would violate an exclusive casino rights agreement the tribes have with the state. On Sept. 18, MGM Resorts International announced its plan to build a new casino resort in ...

MASHANTUCKET - The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center reopened Wednesday to the delight of groups of elementary school children from New Haven to Greenwich. A self-guided tour takes you through the time of the Mashantucket Pequots from the Ice Age to modern times. There are ...

In addition to approving the casino-expansion bill — after removing a provision that would have repealed authorization for the East Windsor casino that the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes are preparing to build — Verrengia's committee also forwarded to the House of Representatives the bill ...

Pictured: Members of the Mashantucket Pequot Fire Department stand proudly alongside the world-famous Budweiser Clydesdales who made a special appearance at Foxwoods Resort Casino on Thursday, March 23, 2018. The Clydesdales engaged in a march across the resort to the delight of hundreds ...

The East Windsor venue — to be jointly operated by the state's tribal casino operators, the Mashantucket Pequots and Mohegans — won't be built until a dispute with federal regulators is resolved. And financing for the $300 million project has yet to be obtained, leaving big questions about the future of this ...

Mashantucket Pequot chairman Rodney Butler says that Connecticut's tribes cannot support a bill that would allow for competitive bidding on a Bridgeport casino. ... Leaders of both the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes told legislators that while they could see the value in having a casino located in ...

HARTFORD — The Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes will not participate in a request for proposals for a Bridgeport casino if the General Assembly chooses to issue one, tribe leaders told legislators Thursday. The chairmen of the two Connecticut tribes, which own Foxwoods Resort Casino and ...

Last year, the Connecticut Legislature passed a bill that authorized the state's two federally recognized tribes – the Mohegan Tribe and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe – to jointly build and operate a commercial casino in East Windsor. The new gambling venue would aim to blunt competition from MGM ...

The bill directs the state Department of Consumer Protection to seek bids for a commercial casino in Connecticut and in its original form would have canceled a previously approved casino in East Windsor that was to be operated jointly by the Mohegan Tribe and Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, owners ...

Unlike the original version, the amended bill no longer strips last year's legislative approval of a new tribal casino in East Windsor, which is being developed by the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes to compete with MGM Resorts' new casino opening soon in Springfield, Massachusetts. The tribes ...

“Every promise that has been made by the Mashantucket Pequots and Mohegans they have followed through with and they have doubled down on, and they have been a good corporate partner,” said Sen. Cathy Osten, D-Sprague, who represents the part of southeastern Connecticut where Foxwoods and ...

Both sides in the legal dispute over the U.S. Department of the Interior's failure to act on gaming agreements between the state and the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes agree on one thing: MGM Resorts International shouldn't be allowed to weigh in. At stake is the federal approval the tribes need ...

The Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes began work on their proposed East Windsor casino yesterday without receiving federal permission to proceed on the project. connecticut casino tribal gaming pact At a ceremony yesterday, the tribes commenced the demolition of a shuttered movie theater at ...

"We've been through too much already together to give up. And we're not going to," said Mohegan Tribal Chairman Kevin Brown. While there's no set date for a casino to open, Brown and Rodney Butler, chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Council, both said they hope it will be "inside of two years.".

east windsor casino rendering web Artistic rendering of the proposed joint Mohegan-Mashantucket Pequot gaming facility in East Windsor, Connecticut. Image Courtesy: MMCT Venture. The Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Tribes, which run the Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun casinos respectively, have ...

It's always fun to tear things down, and that's what the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes are doing up in East Windsor on Monday in the hope of .... East Windsor, Conn., marking the start of demolition of a movie theater at the site of what they hope will be a new casino that the Mashantucket ... more.

This East Windsor casino would be located just 13 miles south of the $960 million MGM Springfield casino that will open in September. The Mashantucket Pequot, owners of Foxwoods Resort Casino, and the Mohegan tribe, which runs rival Mohegan Sun, hope that an East Windsor casino will lessen the ...

It would require state officials “to develop and issue a request for proposals” and “repeal the authority of MMCT Venture, LLC,” the Mashantucket Pequot-Mohegan partnership intent on building a casino on nontribal land in East Windsor. “Make no mistake about it, this bill is going to cost thousands of ...

Demolition work at the site of the third Connecticut casino, scheduled to start Wednesday, has been pushed back to next week. MMCT Venture, the Mashantucket Pequot-Mohegan partnership intent on building a $300 million facility in East Windsor, confirmed Tuesday that the clearing of the Bridge Street ...

North Stonington — Connecticut's close relationship with the casino-owning Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes continues to anger the Eastern Pequot Tribe. In a letter this week to U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, the Easterns take issue with a Connecticut congressional delegation's call for an ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The chairmen of Connecticut's two federally recognized tribes are warning the casino revenue-sharing agreements they have with the state could be at risk if lawmakers push ahead with a modified bill that could lead to other entities opening casinos. In a letter released Monday, ...

In the casino battle, we have the $300 million East Windsor plan by the Connecticut gaming tribes, the Mohegan and the Mashantucket Pequot nations — with support from a coalition of at least four unions including the UAW, which has workers at Foxwoods, plus the Building Trades Council in the Hartford ...

Under Mashantucket Pequot tribal law, more than 30 percent of the employees eligible to form a bargaining unit must sign authorization cards to petition for an election. In the election, the union is recognized if a majority of voters favor affiliation. The Mashantuckets enacted their labor law nearly a decade ...

Two Connecticut tribes that are proposing a jointly-run casino in East Windsor are planning to participate in a demolition ceremony in the town. Mohegan Tribal Chairman Kevin Brown and Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Chairman Rodney Butler also plan to make an announcement at Monday's event marking ...