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Shinnecock Indian Nation Chairman Bryan Polite (left) and a rendering of the Southampton casino (Photos courtesy of Facebook and Shinnecock Indian Nation)
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: The Shinnecock Nation is planning to build a casino in Southampton.
The tribe’s on-again, off-again project is on again, perhaps because a license for a full-fledged downstate casino is up for grabs.
The tribe’s Southampton reservation is beyond the state’s control and it needs no permission from New York for the 76,000-square-foot casino it aims to build there. But a license from the state is far more appealing, as it would allow for a vastly broader array of games and a more accessible location and thus much more revenue.
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