Foxwoods Casino Resort: An Unusual Experiment in Economic Development

Anne-Marie D’Hauteserre

Economic Geography, 1998, vol. 74, issue 0, 112-121

Abstract: The Foxwoods Casino Resort owned by the Mashantucket Pequots of Connecticut is the largest gambling casino in the Western world. The Pequots’ Connecticut location enabled the tribe to open a casino, with accessibility to a large market and limited competition. The opening of Foxwoods is also the result of changes in relationships between Americans and Indians and shifts in American attitudes toward gambling. As attitudes and laws change, however, there is little chance that another Indian Foxwoods will be created here or elsewhere in the United States.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.1998.tb00034.x

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