Foxwoods Casino
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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 complex owned and operated by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation on their Mashantucket Pequot Indian Reservation, within Ledyard, Connecticut. Including 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 two hotel towers, with a total of 2,266 hotel rooms; and a two-story game arcade for children and teens. In 2015 a retail complex, known as Tanger Outlet Mall, opened with 85 stores for luxury goods. It is located between the two hotel towers.
Foxwoods was founded in 1986 by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe as a high-stakes bingo hall on their reservation. (They had gained legal control of their reservation and federal recognition by an act of Congress in 1983, which overrode a veto by President Ronald Reagan.)
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 added table games, followed by additional slot machines in 1993. G. Michael Brown became the chairman of the casino in 1993. In an agreement negotiated with the state of Connecticut, to gain their approval of the casino, the tribe agreed to pay 25 percent of the slot revenue to the state, a sum that amounted 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. In January 2012, the "hold" was $45 million. A poker room and a high-limit 30-table game area were added in 1995.
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