RubinBrown Gaming Stats 2012

St. Paul Region

$4.5 Billion

1.5% 119 Ops -0.8% Ops

The St. Paul Region generated $4.4 billion in revenues, experiencing minimal growth in 2010. During 2010, the region saw a $67.1 million, or 1.5% increase in revenues; which was an improvement from 2009 when the region experienced a $17.9 million, or 0.4% decline in revenues.

• The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, located in North Dakota, is replacing their Skydancer Casino with a new $30 million casino that has 757 slot machines and a 97 room hotel which is set to open late 2012. • The Crow Tribe, in Montana, replaced their Little Big Horn Casino with Apsaaslooka Nights Casino, a 12,000 square foot property with a 4,000 square-foot gaming floor and 193 bingo machines in May of 2011. Another way tribes are attracting new patrons is by expanding their current operations through renegotiating or researching expired compacts. The Flandreau Santee Sioux tribe in South Dakota successfully signed a new compact with the state which will allow them to double their 250 slot machines at Royal River Casino. Because of the tribe’s success, another tribe, the Cheyenne River Sioux, is researching their expired contract signed in 1990 to see if they can build their first casino on trust land. In Minnesota, the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is asking federal officials to expand their reservation in order to include a hotel they own in Duluth. Even though the St. Paul Region reported minimal growth in gaming revenues over the last three years, the tribes continue to expand their operations with new casinos, hotels and other attractions such as conference centers and golf courses.

Overall, the St. Paul Region is the largest based on the number of casinos. The region’s 119 casinos account for 28.2% of the total number of tribal casinos; however, the region only generates 16.8% of total Indian gaming revenues. As this region has seen nominal growth in revenues over the last three years (only 1.12% since 2008), tribal casinos are expanding into other business areas and upgrading their service offerings to attract new customers. Tribes have also been renegotiating or researching expired compacts in order to expand their gaming operations. Most tribal casinos across the region are adding new gaming machines, hotel rooms, conference centers and other amenities to their properties in order to attract new patrons and increase gaming revenues: • The Confederated Tribes of Salish and Kootenai, in Montana, doubled the number of Class II machines to 206 at the KwaTaqNuk Resort and Casino. • The Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi, in Michigan, opened their Gun Lake Casino in early 2011 with 1,450 slot machines and 28 table games. • The Santee Sioux Nation in Nebraska is replacing their current Ohiya Casino with a $20 million, 25,000 square foot casino along with a 47 room lodge, banquet facility, conference center and 18-hole golf course.

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