Is The Golden Mesa Casino In Guymon Oklahoma Open

The Shawnee Tribe will open the doors to its long-awaited off-reservation casino in Oklahoma on September 12. The Golden Mesa Casino features more than 600 gaming machines and six table games. The 42,000 square-foot facility is located in Guymon, more than 400 miles from tribal headquarters. 'We are going to bring visitors from all over that are going to come here,' Chris Floyd, the president of Shawnee Development LLC, the tribe's economic development arm, said in a news release.

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Golden Mesa Casino is the exclusive gaming experience in the Oklahoma Panhandle – now open 24/7! Located just south of Guymon, OK, along Highway 54, Golden Mesa features more than 600 of your favorite electronic and table games. Golden Mesa Casino set to reopen on June 22. Filing period for school board seats to open in December. Guymon, OK 73942 Phone: 580-338-3355. Dec 12, 2020 - Golden Mesa features more than 600 electronic games and the only Blackjack and Ultimate Texas Hold 'Em tables in the Oklahoma panhandle. The Gold Spur bar and Copper Cantina Restaurant are located. Oklahoma’s Golden Mesa Casino is Finally Open for Business. By Nickolas Branson. September 13, 2019. For years, the Shawnee Tribe in Oklahoma has been working to open a new gambling venue. This week, the tribe officially opened the doors to the Golden Mesa Casino, located in Guymon. It’s exciting news for casino gaming fans located in the Oklahoma panhandle area. After a ribbon-cutting ceremony that will be held on Thursday, Sept. 12, the Shawnee Tribe casino will open its doors. T he foundation has been laid and the walls put up, now all that remains for the Golden Mesa Casino to open its doors are the final touches.

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— Golden Mesa Casino (@GMesaCasino) August 19, 2019 The 107-acre site in Guymon was chosen due to restrictions placed on land acquisitions in the northeastern part of the state. The Cherokee Nation objects to other tribes seeking trust lands in the same area. The Shawnees also ran into opposition to prior proposals elsewhere in Oklahoma. Congress at one point intervened and made it harder for the tribe to acquire land in the state. The tribe, whose federal recognition was restored by Congress in 2000, eventually pursued Golden Mesa under two-part determination provisions of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. The process requires approval from both the federal government as well as the state in which the casino will be located.

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The Bureau of Indian Affairs approved the environmental assessment for the casino toward the end of the Obama administration. Former Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, a Republican, gave her blessing shortly afterward. The Trump administration, however, held up the final portion -- the land-into-trust application for the gaming site -- for a year for unexplained reasons. Former Secretary Ryan Zinke of the Department of the Interior finally announced approval at a ceremony in Oklahoma City on January 18, 2018. A notice of the acquisition was published in the Federal Register on March 28, 2018. The tribe's Class III gaming compact with the state of Oklahoma was also approved by the BIA, according to a notice published on June 8, 2018, with an amendment approved on May 8, 2019. Golden Mesa is being developed in partnership with Global Gaming Solutions, a subsidiary of the Chickasaw Nation.

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