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NEW BUFFALO, Mich. (WNDU) - All four Four Winds casinos are set to reopen Monday at noon.

“We wanted to do it as quickly as we can but we weren’t going to open too early, and I don’t know if you’re aware of this or not but when we open on the 15th we will be the last tribe to open in Michigan,” said Tribal Chairman Matt Wesaw, of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians.

The Four Winds in New Buffalo opened 13 years ago and never was supposed to close.

“Something we didn’t want to do, as most people know, most of our economic development, most of our revenue comes from the properties we have. We had to go through layoffs, reduced benefits, it was just devastating to a lot of our people,” said Chairman Wesaw.

Come Monday, they’ll know who is hot and who’s not before gamers ever get to the slots.

New thermal imaging cameras have been placed at the entrance.

“We’ll have thermal cameras there they don’t require you to stop your stride so as you walk through, the camera will record your temperature,' explained Four Winds COO Frank Freedman. 'If your temperature is above 100.4, it’ll flag you.'

The Hard Rock Cafe will open, the buffet will not.

Players and employees must wear masks.

Smoking will not be allowed indoors.

The Four Winds New Buffalo will be using about 55% of its slot machine capacity.

Some side by side games are too close for COVID comfort so every other machine has been taken out of service.

At the table games, you’ll find more elbow room and perhaps less camaraderie.

“You know people like to stand by table games and watch the action, that won’t be permissible during this time,' Freedman said. 'We’ll ask you to keep moving along.'

Electrostatic sprayers full of disinfectant are now standard equipment on the gaming floor.

If you have to sign something at the cashier, you keep the pen.

“When the first casino opened up in the U.P., they were jam packed,” said Chairman Wesaw. “People were just chomping at the bit to come back. I think we will experience a very similar situation.”

The Four Winds floor in New Buffalo has a capacity of 9,800 guests. It’s now set up to accommodate about half that.

“If we’re comfortable in how we feel we can keep our guests safe, we’re not limited to 50%. That’s a state suggestion by executive order. Both Michigan and Indiana we’re not ,we don’t have to abide by that,” said Chairman Wesaw.

Before the closing, the Four Winds had about 2,600 employees.

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By Monday, about 2,000 are expected to be back on staff

The popularity of sports betting in the state of Indiana has not gone unnoticed in South Bend.

The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, which runs Four Winds Casino Resort and is the only non-commercial casino in the state, has made a request to the state of Indiana to enter negotiations for a gaming compact to expand to include Class III betting. That includes both table games and sports betting, with the latter having started in the state Sept. 1 after becoming law earlier in 2019.

According to the Times of Northwest Indiana, Pokagon Band Tribal Chairman Matthew Wesaw sent a letter dated Aug. 13 to Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb asking to “make arrangements to initiate our discussions.” Holcomb assigned the state’s gaming commission, led by executive director Sara Tait, to negotiate on Indiana’s behalf. With the Pokagon Band a federally recognized tribe, Four Winds does not operate under the terms set by the Indiana Gaming Commission and is not required to pay state taxes.

“They have made the request to begin the process,” Tait confirmed. “The governor’s role is to enter negotiations, and I am the point person. The state has done its due diligence and we’re engaging in the process pursuant to our obligations.”

Hashing it out?

Per the federal codes of Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, the state is required to conduct the Class III compact negotiations “in good faith.” The compact negotiating process would have to be approved by both the governor and the state’s General Assembly, an additional step made under a law passed by the General Assembly in 2015 when the Pokagon Band first began considering Indiana as a potential site for a casino.

The compact would then go to the U.S. Secretary of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs for final approval.

The Pokagon Band previously announced expansion plans for Four Winds in September that included a 23-story hotel tower with 317 rooms, including 83 suites, and a convention center scheduled to be completed by September 2021. The 175k-square foot casino, which opened in January 2018, currently offers 1,400 slot-style bingo machines, bingo, pull-tabs, and 10 poker tables. Class III betting would introduce actual slot machines and table games in addition to sports betting.

The Pokagon Band, which has 166 acres of federally recognized tribal land in South Bend, also operates casinos in New Buffalo, Hartford, and Dowagiac in Michigan. That state has yet to approve sports betting but a bill passed through Michigan’s House of Representatives in late October.

Indiana’s 10 casinos that conduct sports betting reported a collective handle of just under $91.7 mm in October, a figure greatly aided with the availability of mobile sports betting via three of the casinos. Should the negotiations be successful, Four Winds would be the sixth casino in the Northwest Indiana region to offer the combination of sports betting, table games, and slot machines.

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