It’s a smart thing to do in California,” he said with a nod toward the icy Cambridge streets. “It’s part of our investment strategy to bank land. 7) with the suave self-assurance and understated humor of a person very much at home behind a microphone. (Staff photo by Kris Snibbe)ĭeron Marquez, the tribe’s youthful chairman, listed these assets Tuesday (Jan. Kurt Luger, executive director of the Great Plains Indian Gaming Association, listens to a panel discussion. Future projects include a shopping center and hotel complex, and a resort on Lake Havasu. a broadband Internet provider an industrial park a bottled water business and the popular Twin Palms Restaurant in Pasadena, Calif. Today, in addition to the casino, the tribe owns, in whole or part: a hotel and an office building in Washington, D.C. Then they invested in a project known as the San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino.
The tiny tribe lived on a reservation of 740 acres in the San Bernardino hills, mostly in mud huts without electricity or running water. Up until the 1980s, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians of Highland, Calif., were dirt poor, with a 75 percent unemployment rate. Joe Kalt (from left), co-director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, participates in a discussion with Anita Fineday, corporate counsel, Mille Lacs Corporate Commission Taylor Keen, vice president for economic development, Cherokee Nation Enterprises and Gregg Shutiva of Acoma Business Enterprises.
