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Potawatomi break ground for expansion
Published August 28, 2006 - BizTimes Daily
Potawatomi Bingo Casino broke ground today for its $240 million expansion project in Milwaukee's Menomonee River Valley.
The investment will create 1,000 in-house jobs and 500 local construction jobs. The expansion will add 500,000 square feet of entertainment space and a six-story parking garage to the tribe's Milwaukee casino.
Meanwhile, the Menominee Indian Tribe seized the moment today by trying to steal some of limelight from the Potawatomi.
Menominee Chair Karen Washinawatok and Kenosha County Executive Allan Kehl today "congratulated" the Forest County Potawatomi Community on the groundbreaking for
their casino expansion in Milwaukee.
Washinawatok and Kehl said they hoped that the Potawatomi and the City of Milwaukee will stop their attempts to thwart the Menominee's plans to build an entertainment center and casino in Kenosha.
"The Potawatomi are a shining example of the tremendous good Indian gaming can do in Wisconsin. The Potawatomi once struggled, as the Menominee do now, to meet the most basic needs of their people. But thanks to support from the southeast Wisconsin region and many others, the Potawatomi have gone on to create a wonderful casino – and now, expand it. On their reservation, hundreds of miles from the Milwaukee casino, the Potawatomi have used
gambling proceeds to build health-care centers, schools and more," Washinawatok said. "It's a wonderful success story, and we certainly hope to follow their example and do the same."
Washinawatok and Kehl said economic studies have indicated that the market would sustain both an expanded Potawatomi casino and a new casino in Kenosha.
