Ute Tribe moving forward with off-reservation gaming project

Monday, September 10, 2012  

The Ute Tribe of Utah is moving forward with an off-reservation casino in Colorado.

The tribe recently completed a feasibility study for a casino in the town of Dinosaur. The tribe will apparently start the land-into-trust process soon.

“It’s in their ballpark now,” Mayor pro-tem Richard Blakley told The Steamboat Today.

Blakley said the tribe isn't worried about a competing off-reservation casino being proposed about 107 miles away in northern Colorado. “They keep telling me that no one else has approached them about anything else,” he told the paper.

The Sleeping Giant Group is planning the other off-reservation casino but hasn't identified a tribal partner.

Get the Story:
Town of Dinosaur still working with tribe to build casino in Northwest Colorado (The Steamboat Today 9/7)
Craig, Moffat County business owners sound off on Hayden casino (The Craig Daily Press 9/7)

Developers still haven't named tribe for off-reservation casino (8/31)