Gold Mountain Capital LLC, which was exploring developing a casino in Bremerton on reservation land for the Suquamish Tribe, has given up the idea.
Owners of the property, the Chambers family, have signed an agreement to sell it to another, undisclosed party. This is land that the Suquamish Tribe claimed to have tribal jurisdiction over, although a Superior Court ruled that the City of Bremerton had the authority to prevent the sale of fireworks on the land.
Unable to sell fireworks, the tribe was exploring the idea of opening a casino on the property, which was put in trust for the tribe in 1928. The family living on the land has sold fireworks on it for many years, until the city won the authority to prevent that.
The Suquamish Tribe continues to insist that local government has no jurisdiction over its trust land.
