Chickasaw Casino Ada Oklahoma
- Slot machines at Winstar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. (File/KTEN) THACKERVILE, Okla. (KTEN) - The COVID-19 pandemic led to the shutdown of Chickasaw Nation casinos in mid-March.
- So come see for yourself all of the electronic and table game excitement at Ada Gaming Center, of of the many Oklahoma gaming destinations in the Chicksaaw Country area. Before you go home, make sure to fill up your gas tank at the attached Chickasaw Travel Stop next door. Discover Our Northeast Region 1500 N Country Club Rd.
A draft Final Environmental Assessment (EA) has been prepared to assess the environmental effects of taking an approximately 248.09 acre tract of land located partially within the City of Ardmore (City) in Carter County (County), Oklahoma (Project Site) into federal trust for the benefit of the Chickasaw Nation (Nation) (Proposed Action) and the subsequent development of a new gaming facility on the site by the Nation. The proposed 40,835 square foot (sf) gaming facility would include 20,830 sf of gaming floor space and back-of-house, restaurant, and retail space.
The Ada Gaming Center is a Native American casino in Ada, Oklahoma. The center is the first gaming facility that was founded by the Chickasaw Nation, having started out as a bingo hall in 1983. 2 The 22,482 sq ft (2,088.6 m 2 ) facility 3 includes a bar, the Traditions Bar, and a restaurant, the Double Down Grill, and 9,220 sq ft (857 m 2.
The Project Site is located northwest of Lake Murray on U.S. Highway 70 (US-70), between Carter Street and Lake Murray Drive on the southern edge of the City. The majority of the Project Site is within City limits; however, the southeastern portion of the Project Site is unincorporated County land. There are currently no structures, paved roads, or other improvements on the Project Site.
Pursuant to 25 USC § 5108 and 25 C.F.R. Part 151, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), as an agency under the authority of the Secretary of the Department of the Interior, is the federal agency that is charged with reviewing and approving tribal applications to take land into federal trust status, and is the lead agency for compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
The BIA issued the Notice of Availability for the draft Final EA on February 15, 2019 through publications in the Ardmoreite and the Ada News. No comment letters were received. The BIA signed a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Proposed Project on October 15, 2020.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Three of the most powerful tribes in Oklahoma filed a federal lawsuit against the state’s governor on Tuesday, asking the court to help resolve a dispute over gambling at tribal casinos.
The Cherokee, Chickasaw and Choctaw nations want a federal judge to determine whether the state compacts that allow gambling exclusively at tribal casinos automatically renew on Jan. 1 for another 15-year term. The tribes contend all the conditions have been met for the compacts to renew.
“For some time, we have tried to establish meaningful intergovernmental engagement regarding our gaming compacts, but you have continued to reject our compacts’ plain terms,” Cherokee Nation Chief Chuck Hoskin, Chickasaw Nation Gov. Bill Anoatubby and Choctaw Nation Chief Gary Batton wrote in a joint letter to Stitt on Tuesday. “Recently, you have gone further, stating allegations against us and threats to our operations.”
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Oklahoma’s new Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt contends the gaming compacts expire on Jan. 1 and that casino gambling after that date will be illegal. Stitt has signaled he wants to renegotiate the compacts to give the state a larger slice of revenue. An attempt by Stitt earlier in December to offer an extension of the compacts while negotiations continued was rejected by most of the tribes.
Stitt announced Tuesday that two of the 39 federally recognized tribes in the state — the Kialegee Tribal Town and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians — agreed to an eight-month extension of the compacts.
“The state of Oklahoma offered an extension, with no strings attached, to all tribes that operate casinos in the state, and my door continues to be open for more tribes to join who are worried about impending uncertainty,” Stitt said in a statement.
Stitt added that he was disappointed that most of the other tribes in the state rejected his previous offers for arbitration or a temporary extension.
The dispute between the governor and the tribes has grown contentious since Stitt first signaled in an op-ed this summer that he wanted to renegotiate the compacts. Last week, Stitt’s top adviser on tribal issues, Lisa Billy, resigned and accused the governor of creating an “unnecessary conflict” with the tribes.
Tribal officials have signaled they are open to renegotiating the rates of the compacts, but not until the governor acknowledges that the compacts renew on Jan. 1. Stitt has not conceded that point and maintains the compacts expire.
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Under the existing compacts, approved by Oklahoma voters in 2004, tribes pay the state “exclusivity fees” between 4% and 10% on gambling revenue in exchange for the exclusive right to operate casinos. Those fees generated nearly $139 million for the state in the 2018 fiscal year, most of it earmarked for education, on roughly $2.3 billion in revenue from games covered under the compacts.
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Since the compacts were approved, casino gambling has exploded in Oklahoma with more than 130 casinos dotting the state, ranging from gas station annexes to resort-style casinos, many of them in border communities. The Winstar World Casino in a rural part of the state’s Red River border with Texas includes massive hotel towers, more than a dozen restaurants and a 400,000-square-foot (37,161- square-meter-) casino floor billed as the largest in the world. Tour buses filled with gamblers from neighboring Texas routinely shuttle into the casino’s parking lot, which is also packed with cars sporting Texas license plates.