From the Grand Rapids Press:
Standish casino has quiet opening
STANDISH – It opened with little fanfare: no billboards, no advertisements, not even an announcement on the Web site. Just some spotlights, shining in the night from the quiet darkness.
Standish
Second Saginaw Chippewa Casino Delayed
From the Morning Sun:
Saganing Eagle’s Landing Casino not looking likely to open by year’s end
By MARK RANZENBERGER
Sun Online Editor
It doesn’t seem likely that the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe will meet its self-imposed deadline of opening the Saganing Eagle’s Landing Casino by year’s end.
Saginaw Chippewa’s Second Casino to Open Dec. 31
From the Bay City Times:
Experience in Manistee suggests Standish casino will grow fast, add jobs and a few problems
Sunday, November 18, 2007By Helen Lounsbury
STANDISH – Rumored for decades, Northeast Lower Michigan’s first casino stands just six weeks from its scheduled Dec. 31 opening.
Yet even as construction crews put finishing touches on what has finally become a certainty for rural Arenac County, little else here is certain. Questions and few answers, loom about how the casino will change this industry-poor, farmland-rich community. Here, in open pasture, the casino marks Arenac’s biggest development project in years.
”People hope it creates good jobs. People hope it makes us a destination. People hope it means more revenue for the area,” muses Curt Hillman, a Standish businessman who has spent a lifetime serving on local economic development boards.
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