Another casino option is being dealt into the mix.
At tonight’s City Council subcommittee meeting, one week after the Mashpee Wampanoags joined Mayor Will Flanagan to announce their proposed agreement for a $500 million casino resort, the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe plants to present what it’s touting as a better plan.
A key issue is the city’s consideration to supplant the 300-acre SouthCoast Bio Park with a casino for the Mashpee tribe’s resort if state and local hurdles can be cleared.
The Flanagan administration has proposed using alternative locations in Greater Fall River for BioPark uses already funded and being developed in concert with the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
“Aquinnah Wampanoag states to Fall River, ‘You can have both!’” wrote the tribe’s public relations firm, tribe, Brandon Associates in Boston.
They emphasized the Aquinnah has been a federally recognized tribe in Massachusetts since 1987, has been coordinating plans for a casino resort the past three [...]

Original post by Michael Holtzman