This is the best proposal I've heard yet for a Casino.

only losers go to casinos

I'd say yes, only if the Narragansetts run it!

Most cruise ships have casinos on them... so why exactly would anyone want to get off the ship to go to a casino? I wouldnt mind having a casino in RI I just don't think your going to generate money from the cruise industry by having a casino.

NK? Talk about luxury destination! Will there be more than just a casino? Let's get the whole plan. Then we can vote.

we don't have money to fix our roads now, what are they going to do resurface rt 95 and rt 4 so you won't have a bad back pain while your in the casino, keep the gambling in ct

Thanks for proposal! Truly in my point of view this is one of the best proposal for casino. Keep it up!

Grow up rhode island and join the modern world.
Capitalism got you on the map.
Embrace it and allow businesses in and prosper instead of hindering it

Quonset was always supposed to have been slated for industrial use to have commercial type business and attract associated business for the deep-water docks & rail system located there. Obviously this has been thrown out the window, Because little Rhodey isn't business friendly....So lets Gamble!

Here is what we do....build the casino and then legalize pot and prostitution. The casino can harbor it all. tax everything and RI will be rolling in the dough! boom done

Casino's=High unemployment, more corupt politicians wanting a piece, drugs and prositution issues, crime and loss of family values.

You would honestly think that rhode island due to it's shear size would be able to compete in other markets such as renewable energies, inportation, health and technical fields to create jobs, but with a general assembly like we have had and a complete mockery of the state from the governor taking side deal funds and celona going to jail and pocketing money to carnevale rapping a woman "illegedly" to Gordon lieing about his record to Cianci going to prision to ciccilinne destroying providence to Jamestown Town Council DUI and arrests to school council representatives leaving the scene of a crime to PROCAP embezzeling money to chaffee taking a cut to,, well you would sort of get the point, hopefully others will follow my lead and vote ALL these idiots out of office. PLEASE

Never !

Let me know the next time the state announces spending anything in the East Bay. We live to subsidize the metro areas and the West Bay.

Gambling, of course! Makes perfect sense. A great job maker. Just like the state of Nevada. Oh wait, Nevada has 14% unemployment.
A little more corruption please
VOTE THESE IDIOTS OUT PEOPLE, PLEASE!!!

Okay. I'm right in the middle here, my husband works in Davisville...when ships come in, I work in real estate in South County. I think a casino is not a bad idea, knowing its going to be privately funded but I think looking into expanding the port for imports could be more profitable now, right now. It is the perfect place to be a hub for east coast imports with the rail right there. I will never say a casino would be a bad idea but that will take time. Rhode Island needs jobs now so expanding what we have seems more profitable to me.

I am all for building a casino in RI and Quonset could be a great site due to the new highway and the current push from QDCRI to build, build, build. However, it may once again be too little too late, we could already have a casino up and running had the RI voters not handily shot down the idea last time it was on the ballot. Now that Mass has decided to build casinos we are scrambling to put together plans for one of our own....we will soon go from not enough full service casinos to way too many for the region to support. I agree with Kamakazee, trying to sell a casino to the cruise lines is ridiculous, they already have them onboard!! Maybe the smaller intercoastal US/Canada lines may come but they're volume isn't enough to bank on. Also, the major cruise lines only come to New England in the fall for the elderly to see the foliage. Maybe if Newport Grand is revamped to include gaming tables since the cruise lines already come to Newport in droves throughout the Spring, Summer and Fall but again, these larger lines already have casinos onboard. Believe me, having more cruise ships coming to RI would benefit me as I work in the shipping industry but I don't think selling this as the main idea is rational.

Ther fact that Mass will have casinos is all the more reason NOT to build any more here. The competition from Mass casinos plus the inevitable online casinos will put little Rhody's casinos right out of business. Then we'll have one more building to try and find a use for.

Gambling is a bad investment in SO many ways.

Connecticut built 2 world class casinos and people still go to Newport and Twin Rivers. Yes, we need to expand our games but we don't need to take away from the economic engine that is Quonset to do that. Let the 2 existing venues expand and keep Quonset for real industry.

Newport doesn't need to expand, I would rather see the place closed and get a computer tech industry there that makes mounds of money year after year, look into small computer companies that piggy back off google, adobe, etc. lots of money comes into the community its a 9-5 gig for many and they ususally put lots of money into family value homes etc..

Casino? Nope a political bondoggle that will benefit the powers that be and th average taxpayer will suffer enormously. Nothing will save this state other than true business with reqal jobs and manufacturing, this quick buck mentality of gambeling and tourism has done nothing but put this state in the toilet.

You want to put this state on the map of advancement into the future? Try industries that that actually produce a product not depend on taking away prosparity but build on it and show an actual worth to what the compant produces. Casino' produce nothing, they are entertainment and low paying jobs, no different than tourism, that has put this staste in to the gutter efver since the closing of the defence industry in the 70's when the atlantic fleet was removed from newport. How soon we forget what really put this state in the state it is in now. Politicians still think tourism will save jobs after they screwwed every industry in the state from Jewery to Fishing. Shame on them!!!!

I don't get the opposition to casinos. If people want to blow their money doing that, it's their business. Stay out of their business - remember SMALL government? Oh, nevermind - it's always the "MORAL" ones who want to stick their noses in people's lives. We have gambling in this state called the LOTTERY.

Has anyone paid atttention to the fact that the two Ct. casinos are laying off thousands of workers and having trouble filling their facilities? The pool of money that feeds the gambling industry is getting shallower every day. Also - Anyone in a position of power to make this decision should talk to the folks in the Ct. communities that host the casinos. The social problems - poverty, homelessness, hunger. spousal and child abuse etc. created in these towns sinc the casinos opened are terrible! I agree with hose who have said real jobs, real products and NO casinos!!

Casino gambling is a panacea to our brain dead state representatives.

The Massachusetts casino's will capture most of Massachusetts gamblers. Twin Rivers and the Newport Grand will just shut down.

There are no nut jobs out there who will pour money into a new RI casino anyway so who is going to fund it? I can see the RI campaign to get a casino to expand here - 'Rhode Island, where we only take 60 cents out of every dollar you make!"

From www.RILOT.com

1. The Rhode Island Lottery was established in 1973 through a Constitutional Convention. Tickets for the first game, The Lot, went on sale May 21, 1974. The first drawing was held at the State House on May 30. Since then, over $1.8 billion has been generated for Rhode Island and shared by all 39 cities and towns throughout the state, and over $5.8 billion has been awarded in prize payouts.

Does not seem like the money has been used wisely now does it?

2. In general, revenues from all Rhode Island Lottery games are divided as follows: 67.9% prize awards; 18.3 % General Fund; 13.2 % commissions; 0.6% lottery operations and other costs. Of the money that is placed into the state’s General Fund, it is distributed among the state’s 39 communities for programs in Human Services, Education, General Government, Public Safety and Natural Resources. Additionally, certain funds are allocated to the Distressed Communities Relief Fund.

Wow, how fortuitous for all the towns?

3. Each year the Rhode Island Legislature appropriates money from the State’s General Fund among the state’s 39 cities and towns. The revenues from Lottery offer tax relief to residents while making it possible to implement and enhance programs in education, public safety, law enforcement, and human services for elderly and others in need.

Anyone here see their taxes go down because of the Lottery.

Can we trust the State to over see a Casino? Not on your life!!!!

Lets see now, 1.8 billon over 38 years Equals 47,368,421 per year for average purposes.

That also equals 1,214,574 per 39 town and cities. Now we all know this was distributed evenly, right?

Remember them touting how it would create tax relief for home owners by funding education in the State, making the State more competitive for top paying educated job pool. Main problem with this State is the foolish notion that tourism is the fix all. Nothing more than a scam filling pockets of a few, providing low wage seasonal jobs.

The tax breaks will be enormous to bring these Casino’s here. This State is so corrupt and fiscally ignorant it amazes me how we leave the same people in power. Look at the recent loan to the shilling for a company that will not be employing many people, considering we gave his company almost 90 percent of the money to attract business, for yet again very few jobs.

This State is in dire trouble for jobs, and is losing population, which mean more taxes for all of us. Anyone read this recent story is tells the tale of the end of this State.

By Associated Press

Thursday, January 5, 2012

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Migration trends tracked by the nation’s largest moving company show Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Maine are among Northeastern states with the highest number of people heading out.

The study by St. Louis-based United Van Lines also says Washington, D.C., continues to be the nation’s most popular destination, and that moving households also prefer western United States.

The study shows just over 56 percent of interstate moves leaving Rhode Island and New Hampshire in 2011.

Fewer than 56 percent of outbound movers were from Connecticut and Maine.

Illinois led the nation in outbound moves, at nearly 61 percent.

United Van Lines has been tracking moves since 1977. Its latest study is based on the more than 146,000 interstate household moves the company handled in 48 states and Washington, DC.

Rep's Carnevale & Trillo are pretty well know guys whom both are pretty well off financially. I would be more impressed if the came forward with a large company or serveral industries that maybe had an interest in moving to Quonset. The place without question is already set up for industry, it has an extensive rail line, new roads an airport and a shipping Port. Why would anyone even consider placing a casino in the middle of that area is beyond me. Each year I notice that land & buildings that have always been slated for commercial use, fall victim to an improper use. Nothing is better for an economy than bustling commercial jobs, research, manufacturing, trade, shipping etc. I dont think its that hard to understand, but yet this damn casino thing keeps raising it's ugly head every couple of years. Lets get with the program guys!

Just to clarify, the Davisville piers currently can accomodate ships with drafts as deep as 29' to dock there and they will be dredging the basin surrounding the piers down to 32' starting next October. QDC will be paying for this. Any upkeep to the piers and surrounding basin is not subsidized by the state or with federal money which allows for lesser dockage rates which is highly desirable to the charges for vessels currently calling Davisville to discharge automobiles. As far as highway access, route 403 has been built and provides a direct route from 95 to Davisville Road. No longer do tractor trailers have to drive through the local neighborhoods to get there. Currently, both Davisville piers are being revamped to allow for cranes that will allow for container ships and barges to offload there directly onto trucks and railcars.

I work in the shipping industry and am in Davisville at least 2-3 days per week, so there is no need to check a map, I drive that route literally in my sleep in the mornings and afternoons. I agree that the I-95 S access isn't as straightforward as it is in getting to I-95 N, but it isn't like they have to drive through the downtown of a city in order to make it to I-95 S, it's only a short detour. However, the rail system will be a highly utilized commodity in regards to the inland transport of the containers once offloaded in Davisville directly from a barge or ship to a rail car or tractor trailer. There are tractor trailers leaving Davisville around the clock loaded up with the Volkswagens, Audis, Porsches, Bentleys and Subarus that are offloaded in Davisville from Ro-Ro vessels to the tune of 2000 - 4000 units weekly. They deliver autos to the Northeast, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states and somehow this is all done routinely even with the troubles in accessing I-95 S.

I agree that the vessels carrying the deeper drafts will not be able to dock in Davisville, even after the upcoming dredging is completed next winter. However, not all container vessels require such deep drafts and therefore could call Davisville, also possibly after discharging containers at another US port and coming here with lighter drafts.

Another aspect of this is that smaller feeder barges would offload at the piers after being loaded from a larger container ship which would be anchored at the Jamestown Anchorage. The same would also be true for containers destined for Providence, which is also setting themselves up for the same type of operations. Since there isn't a current fee in place for vessels and tugs and barges anchoring off of Jamestown, this could be an opportunity to create such a fee for any type of vessel coming into the anchorage. Although this wouldn't be a huge money maker, it would be some extra money coming to the state for really doing nothing at all.

I do not see any negatives coming from Rhode Islanders embracing this added business coming into the state in both Davisville and Providence in the near future.

More Rail Traffic...less trucks. Between the Sea-view RR and the P&W RR they do a pretty good job of moving the freight on-time at Quonset, would be nice to keep them busy by using the Port for what its ment for. Shipping..Not Gambling!

I've always been in support of a casino in RI. But it has to be one that can compete with Foxwoods, Mohegan Sun and any grand plans they have in Mass. A place with world-class gaming, evertainment and, yes - a convention center. But I'd only support a casino if there's an ironclad plan of where and how revenues will be distributed. No point having a casino if revenues will be squandered or are earmarked for something the people of RI don't support.

The casino issue rears its ugly head once again. The RI Legislature is once attempting to orchestrate an 11th hour deal in order to get this built before Massachusetts. If the RI Legislature was honest and forthcoming when Harrah's came to town, we most likely would have had one.

The Twin River establishment is on it's way to become a full fledged casino now that the dog races are out of there.

What the RI Legislature isn't telling us; and why we should all be suspicious of any casino deal proposed by any person in the State house are the facts.
1 Who is going to run said casino?
2 What is the percentage paid to the State?
3 How much of that percentage is going to be earmarked for that giant black-hole called the "General Fund"?
4 Where is the money earned going to go? Tax relief, roads, schools, infrastructure?

Until we as RI'ers get the full picture with all of the facts laid out, I say NO, dont trust the people making this deal, for they'll only be looking out for themselves, instead of the citizens.

Casino at Q Point makes lots of sense...RI keeps missing the boat, the plan is great, but like someone else said the Narragansetts need to be part of it...the State has given them the short end of the stick too many times.
Like it or hate gambling is here to stay and surrounding the State so why not get a bigger piece of the action....people need to wake up!

I think seeing how online slots are gaining popularity and that even Massachusetes has their own slots parlour, the politicians are feeling the urge to have a casino for their own. Perhaps relying on the defence contractor there to provide most of the jobs in the area is not what they want.
Brandon - http://www.doubledowncasino.com

a live casino would be sick. so many yummy poker fish, nom nom nom gimme all your money

If the casino is built into the existing naval base infrastructure, that itself could be a draw. It might become a themed casino with matching resorts. Whether its the slots machine or poker tables, maybe they could use a naval ship theme to draw in the crowd.
Brandon - http://www.doubledowncasino.com

Lets see how the pessimist must look at this ;-}.

1. There will be lawsuits by the Narragansett’s over a Casino, probably a Federal Discrimination suit and with civil rights and a few others things I am sure.

2. There will be lawsuits by numerous environmentalist groups no doubt.

3. There will be lawsuits by anti-gambling groups of course.

4. Cruise ship traffic will also become a problem with the Save the bay folks, so law suit there.

5. Many other special interest lawsuits no doubt.

6. Newport considering the run down hi lai to be a full casino.

7. Then the Twin Rivers to be a full casino.

8. Then MA casino’s.

9. Anyone really think your going to make money off this. (Think Lottery lowering taxes and funding Education to relive property owners) Anyone ever see that?

10. Perhaps The monetary CT problems over the years and especially now, with the Casio in fiscal distress, because of bad management and the economic downturn that will not be over anytime soon in RI.(last estimate I heard was 2027).

11. Tax breaks to the tune of 100’s of millions of dollars, that will never be paid back, at the least take 100 years to break even, that of course means the taxpayers take up the slack until the state gets in the black, in a 100 years.

12. Increase in jobs for Gambling addiction councilors, (guess that’s a plus for them) not so much for the ones that are broke.

13. Probably many here can think of pages more lol.

Where can I get updates to the situation with the proposed Quonset casino? I need to know if they will be going ahead with the building of the new casino, and whether I should be making vacation plans in the years ahead to visit there. It might be interesting to see what they can do to revive businesses over there. - http://www.doubledowncasino.com