Meskwaki Indian Tribe Expands its Bingo Casino Interests

There are no real words to described the entire facade inside and outside of the new Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel as visitors to the hotel are inexplicably awed by the magnificent sight that greeted them, a dramatic real waterfall gently cascading down the stone ledges and a brilliant orange flame rising from the fire pits.

Rows and rows of slot machines line the main gambling floor of the hotel. Deeper inside the bingo casino is a lounge, hidden for the hotel's V.I.P customers to unwind after gambling up to $1,000 dollars on a hand on blackjack and other exciting games that are available in the casino.

The newly built bingo casino, which will open to the public this Friday, is a part of the $111 million dollars Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel expansion at an Iowa based gambling complex. Meskwaki officials' main goal is to make the Meskwaki complex, which is already 14 years old since its opening, more attractive to gaming enthusiasts. Meskwaki also plans to expand at Waterloo and Riverside in the coming months.

The bingo casino attracts 5,000 visitors daily from all over the Midwest and is already considered as one of the most successful gambling business in Iowa. According to Dan Stromer, General Manager of Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel, on a normal day buses that are full of customers arrived in the hotel at frequent intervals.

The Meskwaki tribe earns a lot from the Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel. Revenues from the casino are used to pay for the tribe members' enrollment and subsidized tribal services and projects of the tribe. Usually, the earnings of the tribe are not publicly disclosed but after a legal dispute almost three years ago, officials said that Meswaki Casino earns a gross revenue of $3 million dollars per week.