Parts of the development could complement the tribe’s growing casino operations, including a new 15-story hotel, but the new project will not involve gaming, King said. We do have a couple of projects (in the development) that we want to fast track and that we hope to break ground on next year.”
… Twelve-hundred acres is so significant and it will be its own ecosystem. We really do need to make sure we get everyone involved.
“This is really a 25-year-plus project and will be such a huge project. “The planning phase will really be about figuring out what are our constraints and opportunities, and what we can target first,” King told MiBiz. Now Gun Lake Investments is launching a six-month planning phase to prioritize various uses and where they will be located. Monica King, CEO of Gun Lake Investments, the tribe’s non-gaming investment arm, said the tribe has secured about a 2.75-mile stretch of highway frontage spanning approximately 1,200 acres. 131 in Allegan County to secure it for possible future development. The tribe for years has been acquiring property north of the casino on the east side of U.S. The Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians, or Gun Lake Tribe, plans to transform hundreds of acres of property north of Gun Lake Casino into a massive development that could include retail, health care, housing and manufacturing, MiBiz has learned.
