The eighty-eight acres north of there is also planned to be a major resort casino.

It also found that resort casinos would pump about $278 million in taxes into state coffers alone.

His plan included two resort casinos and 3,000 slot machines at the state's four racetracks.

It is up to Blackpool to persuade the regional government to steer the resort casinos its way.

Now, Mirage Resorts wants to build a $350 million resort casino and convention center in the middle of all that.

Under the new deal, the spaces will be allocated to the Resorts casino for four years instead of the original term of two years.

Since 1992, the Mashantucket Pequot have operated what has developed into one of the largest resort casinos in the world.

The table games legislation, which passed in January 2010, allows resort casinos to have up to 600 slot machines and 50 table games.

For example, it said that a resort casino in western New York could attract as many as 10.5 million visitors a year and create 4,000 jobs.

The casino currently is at the maximum number of slot machines, 600, and table games, 50, that is allowed at resort casinos.