Mohegan Sun, Foxwoods Would Attract More Clients Thanks To New Nongaming Amenities
For many years, Foxwoods Casino and Mohegan Sun, two local gaming facilities owned and operated by two American Native tribes have been known to offer gambling activities. But now, the facilities are quickly adopting more nongaming amenities, a move that has been characterized by their respective representatives that an ingenious and deliberate move to suppress the ever-increasing and fierce competition from neighboring states. It was this week when Foxwoods Casino management made an announcement, which indicated that the casino is currently constructing a facility just within Foxwoods Casino that will be home to in-door kart track. The multi-level facility will among other things feature hairpin turns, 9-horsepower karts that are powered by gas, as well as dramatic elevation changes all of which are slated to be opened by 2018.
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On the other hand, less than 10 miles away from Foxwoods Casino, another Native American tribal owned and operated casino Mohegan Sun is also constructing an $80 million expo and convention center that has also been scheduled to be opened in 2018.
Upon completion of the project, Mohegan Sun management says that the facility will boost the casino’s current conference space by 140, 000 square feet. The two facilities, Foxwoods Casino and Mohegan Sun are doing all these in a bid to attract gamblers, tourists and the business community to their premises and to the northeast in general.
Since the opening of the facilities starting with Foxwoods Casino that opened its doors to the public in 1986 and Mohegan Sun that followed suit exactly 10 years later in 1996, the two facilities enjoyed a liberal competition. But now that neighboring states have officially given out more liberal rules that govern gambling in their respective areas of jurisdiction, there seems to cause trouble on Foxwoods Casino and Mohegan Sun.
It should be remembered that when MGM Resorts announced that they were going to put up a $950 million property just a few miles from Foxwoods Casino, the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes protested. However, it was clear that the project should go on and it is nearing its completion. Early this year again, the two tribes successfully petitioned the state for neglecting them and falling to protect the tribes’ interests when the state allowed the construction of a satellite casino in East Windsor.
Although the court battle delayed the start of the project in East Windsor, the state finally received a clearance that allowed for the construction of the satellite casino project. When complete, the $300 million, which was also argued I court by MGM Resorts will be home to a whopping 2, 000 slot machines and some 150 table games. In the article Foxwoods & Mohegan Sun Casinos Suppress Competition it says for many years following their decades of operation, Foxwoods Casino and Mohegan Sun Casino have been known to only offer gambling activities.
But stiff competition from the new facilities such as the satellite casino in East Windsor, MGM Springfield that is nearing its completion and the liberalized form of gambling in neighboring states has forced the two facilities to shift attention to include nongaming amenities, which is not the norm.
