Fond du Lac Band seeks to grow off-reservation gaming site

Tuesday, January 17, 2012  

The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians is seeking to expand its off-reservation gaming site in Duluth, Minnesota.

The tribe recently filed a land-into-trust application with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The tribe wants to add the adjacent Carter Hotel to the Fond-du-Luth Casino.

The tribe owns the hotel, which now sits vacant. The tribe paid $1,150 in property taxes last year, The Duluth News Tribune reported.

“The band has an interest in upgrading the property and making it more of a draw,” Chairwoman Karen Diver told the paper. “We’d be investing in more jobs.”

The city is opposing the application. Mayor Don Ness has already threatened to shut down the casino as part of a revenue-sharing lawsuit that the tribe won.

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