Tribe Looking for Location for Slot Machine Casino

The Mashpee Wampanoag tribe is looking for land near the 200 acres that they own in Mashpee in order to declare them part of their reservation. If they are able to do that, then they will be allowed to put a slot machine casino on that land. The question is: where will they be able to buy land?

Some have suggested Plymouth, but the people of the town are not interested in having the slot machine casino there. About ten years ago a floating slot machine casino at Cordage Park tried to come in, but many were angry at the prospect. There is an area at the southern most part of Plymouth that many have tried to purchase in the past, but the town probably won’t sell that to the tribe either.

There is a group that owns quite a bit of land in the state, the A.D. Makepeace Company, and as they own large portions of land in Plymouth it is conceivable that they would sell to the tribe. The town would be against it, but as it is not their land, they probably wouldn’t be able to do much about it. There is an airbase as well, but their Executive Director said they did not think that it would be a good location for a slot machine casino.

There is also the former Fore River Shipyard, which would come with some challenges, but it might be a great spot for the slot machine casino. However, the shipyard’s neighbors are not interested in the casino coming in there either.

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