Gambling has been on and off the table here in the Sullivan County, NY Catskills for many a year. Our area is well situated for gaming, a point the players in casino development well understand.
The Catskills are closer to the NYC Metro Area than Atlantic City, Foxwoods, and the Mohegan Sun. There is just a vast pool of customers from which to draw and we’re just a couple of hours from Manhattan. Gaming makes sense, except it’s never materialized
The hotel industry, in its heyday here in the mountains, floated the idea on numerous occasions. Off reservation Indian Tribes have made deals, canceled deals, re-instated deals. New York State has been supportive of the gambling agenda at times, while other times, the political climate ran in the opposite direction.
Perhaps the most difficult hurdles to overcome were the federal and state legal requirements that would allow legalized gambling in New York State. Even those issues seemed to be overcome within the last several years only to be killed by Mr. Kempthorne, former Bureau of Indian Affairs ruled Off-Reservations Tribes did not qualify for gambling venues outside specific reservation lands.
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By Victor Whitman
Times Herald-Record
Posted: February 10, 2008 - 2:00 AM
What happened? (To Gambling In Sullivan County?)
SEE SIDE BAR from above article
The rejection
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne on Jan. 4 rejected 11 applications for off-reservation casinos, including the St. Regis Mohawk proposal at the Monticello Gaming & Raceway and the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohicans project in Bridgeville. Nine other tribes were notified that their applications were incomplete.
On what basis?
The Interior Department adopted the policy of "commutable distance," denying the casinos because the tribal members could not commute from the reservation to the site of the casino, in the Mohawk's case 350 miles away. This clarifies Interior's longstanding regulation to grant more scrutiny to land into trust applications proportional to the distance from the reservation. Marking another shift in policy, Interior issued a blanket rejection of the 11 projects based on this rule, having previously notifying the tribes that each project would be evaluated on the individual merits. As to the Mohawk project, Interior ignored state and local support.
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The gaming issue has had a torturous route—at times so close to actual approval, developers, architects, and serious plans were set before the formal political machinery of Sullivan County.
Actual tribe negotiations took place, planning and zoning boards reviewed site details. Yes, we almost had the opportunity to tap into a tremendous entertainment reservoir perfect for our County—at least, that’s what gambling proponents claimed.
A wealth of relevant information exists on-line. Suffice it to say, I’ve opened up this topic because, yet again, gaming in The Catskills is heating up again.
Here’s the article explaining why gaming may be back on the table in the Catskills:
Here is a timeline for the Casino Gambling Issue in the Catskills of Sullivan County, NY.
John Kavaller
Licensed NYS Agent & REALTOR®
Catskill Sales Associates, Inc.
http://www.catskillcountryrealestate.com/
845-482-3200 Ext. 13: Office
845-492-0261: John’s Cell
845-482-3632: Evening
john@catskillsales.com and catskillsrealestate@gmail.com
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