After break with Mohawks, Catskills resort for sale

Tuesday, December 13, 2005  

The owners of a resort in the Catskills have put 1,000 acres up for sale after plans for a casino with the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe fell through.

The Kutsher's Country Club was to be the site of the tribe's off-reservation casino. But in hopes of speeding up the federal review process, the tribe pulled out this fall in favor of another location.

"I've been through over five years of ups and downs and sideways with the gaming situation," Mark Kutsher, the president and an owner of the resort, told The New York Times. "It ain't over till it's over."

The asking price is $50 million for 1,400 acres and a 400-room hotel. Kutsher said he hopes to sell the land and keep the hotel.

The tribe, meanwhile, still hasn't gotten any closer to getting approval for the casino. The Interior Department indicated that the tribe will have to go through the land-into-trust process all over again for the new site, which previously won approval in 2000.

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For Sale: Last Mega-Resort in Catskills, but No Casino (The New York Times 12/13)
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