Bridge Investment Group LLC (BIG) will open its casino on Tinian, part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in September, the mayor, Edwin P. Aldan, announced May 15.
BIG has already paid the $500,000 annual casino license. BIG has also agreed to build a waste treatment plant for the casino, which had been the subject of a complaint by the Commonwealth Ports Authority in 2020.
The Tinian Ocean View Resort & Casino will be built next to the Tinian dock.
CPA board chairwoman Kimberlyn King-Hinds told the Saipan Tribune that BIG is still lobbying to be allowed to build a temporary treatment plant so they can begin the casino as soon as possible. King-Hinds said, “Unless there’s a compelling reason to allow for such a move, I don’t think that CPA can support that request.”
BIG plans to draw on the market of players from Guam, Saipan, Korea, Japan and Vietnam, said Aldan. The casino will have a capacity for up to 300 players at a time.
