The two non-tribe investor groups for the Huron Township and Lansing plans sued the Kewadin gaming authority for breaching casino development contracts.
Greektown Casino-Hotel in Detroit on March 16, 2022. It is the same tribe that opened Detroit's Greektown Casino as a non-tribal venture before losing it to bankruptcy in 2008. The Sault tribe is the largest tribe within Michigan by membership and currently operates five small Kewadin casinos in the U.P. The plan drew opposition from the three Detroit casinos and several Michigan tribes that run their own casinos. The Huron Township casino would have operated in a vacant 71,000-square-foot megachurch building in the woods off I-275 that was to be redeveloped. Department of the Interior to put the land for the sites into trust, a necessary step for building off-reservation casinos. In both casino plans, the Sault tribe was unsuccessful in getting the U.S. More: 3 new office buildings would be unique to Detroit, have more amenities, developers say More: 7 new Detroit developments opening in 2023
The judgement is likely to be appealed to the Michigan Court of Appeals.Ī representative for Kewadin and the Sault tribe declined comment Thursday. Judge Joyce Draganchuk has yet to issue a final judgement, although her Monday ruling entitled the investors to damages for breach of contract and fraudulent misrepresentation by Kewadin.
