The old Marquette County airport on U.S. 41 will see a new use if all goes well with a new KBIC plan to move one of the tribe's casinos to the site. A step toward that goal was taken as the site passed federal approval recently. Read down and you'll also find they expect to create 60 new jobs at the new site -- good news for everyone.
Excerpt: The Bureau of Indian Affairs has approved a land-into-trust application for gaming for a Michigan nation and has denied an application for a New York nation because it was incomplete.
Larry Echo Hawk, the Interior Department’s Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, approved an application for off reservation trust land for a proposed casino in Marquette County, Michigan, for the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community.
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