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Point Molate Casino Moves Ahead

30 March 2005

CALIFORNIA – As reported by the Berkeley Daily Planet: "A Berkeley developer's plans for a $700 million luxury casino resort at the foot of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge will move another step closer to realization Thursday night.

"The Point Molate casino proposal, the brainchild of environmental clean-up expert-turned-gambling entrepreneur James D. Levine, will be the subject of a federal hearing starting at 7 p.m. in Richmond Memorial Auditorium, 403 Civic Center Plaza.

"…Levine's plan is one of two surviving Las Vegas-scale slot-machine and table game resorts proposals still flourishing in the Richmond area.

"A third proposal, calling for a 2,500-slot-machine gaming palace at the Casino San Pablo card room, was withdrawn last week in the face of federal hearings and strong opposition in the state Legislature.

"…Before a casino can be built at Point Molate, the Bureau of Indian Affairs would have to first agree to take the land into trust for the tribe…"

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