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Presently, the Native American tribe seems satisfied with electronic bingo machines and live bingo. Earlier proposals suggest the Aquinnah Wampanoag gambling facility will be more of a bingo hall than actual casino.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
During the legal proceedings, the tribe suggested a gambling facility featuring 300 bingo machines, plus live bingo games. However, now fully cleared to build as big of a Class I and II facility as they wish, those plans could of course change.<\/p>\n
The tribe believes the venue could generate about $5 million in annual revenues for the Native American community that has about 1,300 members.<\/p>\n
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The Martha’s Vineyard casino will presumably have little impact on the vast majority of residents and annual visitors. That’s because Aquinnah and the tribe’s almost 500 sovereign acres are located in the region where locals call “up island,” an extremely rural area of the 100-square-mile island.<\/p>\n
Most of Martha’s Vineyard’s population, as well as tourists, spend their time “down island” in the eastern portion towns and historic villages of Edgartown, Oak Bluffs, and Vineyard Haven.<\/strong><\/p>\nFor example, to travel from Vineyard Haven to Aquinnah is a 16-mile commute on a two-lane road that typically takes at least 30 minutes. Ferry service, the only way to reach Martha’s Vineyard, is reserved to two ports on the island’s northeastern shore.<\/p>\n
That means only those with a strongest of desires to play bingo will likely be making the commute to the tribe’s gambling hall. “In a rural town on an island, inaccessible, only one two-lane road in, a gambling hall makes no sense,” Hohlt concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head can build a Martha’s Vineyard casino on their sovereign Native American land on the far western tip of the island in Aquinnah. That’s the result of the US Supreme Court deciding today to dismiss an appeal brought by the State of Massachusetts and Town of Aquinnah trying to block […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":66825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,60,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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