Developer planning to build hotel alongside Mohawk Bingo Palace

By David Iman II, Watertown Daily Times, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 20–HOGANSBURG — This summer, a prominent developer on the St. Regis Mohawk reservation hopes to begin building a new hotel alongside a relocated Mohawk Bingo Palace.

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Mon, November 21st, 2005

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