Foxwoods
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| Location | Mashantucket Pequot Tribe Reservation |
| Address | 350 Trolley Line Blvd Ledyard, CT 06338-3830 |
| Opening date | July 5, 1986 |
| Theme | Native American |
| No. of rooms | 2,266 |
| Total gaming space | 344,000 sq ft (32,000 m2) |
| Casino type | Land-Based |
| Owner | Mashantucket Pequot Tribe Nation |
| Previous names | Mashantucket Pequot Bingo Hall (1986-92) |
| Renovated in | 1992, 1994-97, 2002-03, 2005-08 |
| Website | Property Website |
Foxwoods Resort Casino is a hotel and casino located on the Mashantucket Pequot Indian Reservation, within Ledyard, Connecticut. A complex of six casinos, the resort covers an area of 9,000,000 sq ft (840,000 m2). The casinos have more than 380 gaming tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and poker and have more than 4,700 slot machines. There are several restaurants within the casinos, among them a Hard Rock Cafe. Foxwoods has 2,266 hotel rooms and a two-story arcade for children and teens.
Foxwoods was founded in 1986 as a bingo hall. The casino was financed by Lim Goh Tong, a Chinese Malaysian who founded the only legal casino in Malaysia. Lim died in October 2007.
In 1992, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, the casino's owner, added table games, followed by additional slot machines in 1993. G. Michael Brown became the chairman of the casino in 1993. The casino agreed to pay 25 percent of their slot revenue to the state of Connecticut, a sum that amounts to almost $200 million per year as of 2007[update]. In the fiscal year ending June 2008, Foxwoods' 6,300 slots handled more than $9.1 billion.
A poker room and a high-limit 30-table game area were added in 1995. Foxwoods is not a smoke-free casino, but due to recent complaints from patrons and employees has designated many common areas such as hallways, walkways, hotel lobbies, retail stores and most restaurants as non smoking areas and has assigned designated areas for smokers. The poker room is non smoking and there are also separate table gaming and slot areas designated as non smoking. The casino was completed in 1996. In 1997, the deluxe Grand Pequot Tower was opened for business.
For years after opening in 1992, Foxwoods had a monopoly on casino gambling in the region and made of billions of dollars in profits. Foxwoods borrowed heavily to finance a massive expansion. Starting in 2009, Foxwoods defaulted on debts totaling over two billion dollars Standard & Poor's lowered Foxwoods' credit rating. The tribe that owns Foxwoods has applied for and received millions of dollars in federal grants for poor people.
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