Amid the coronavirus pandemic, he said, Great Wolf Resorts revived its interest. Since then, other developers, including a Mashantucket tribal entity, have had interest in developing a water park at the casino, said Rodney Butler, the Mashantucket chairman. After town officials approved a zoning change for the project, it was abandoned in the face of an economic downturn. In 2007, the Mashantuckets, in partnership with Great Wolf Resorts, pursued plans to develop an indoor water park on tribe-owned, nonreservation land along Route 214 in Ledyard. “We’re just getting started,” Jason Guyot, Foxwoods president and chief executive officer, said at the late-afternoon event attended by Gov.
Plans call for the Great Wolf Lodge at Mashantucket to open adjacent to the casino in 2024. Mashantucket - Celebrating Foxwoods Resort Casino’s 30th anniversary, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe and casino officials announced at a news conference Tuesday that they’ve reached an agreement with Great Wolf Resorts, an indoor water park developer they first engaged more than 14 years ago.įoxwoods also revealed it is planning to open a new high-stakes bingo hall, convert the casino's existing bingo hall into a 75,000-square-foot convention center and renovate the casino’s main entrance.