The Pokagon Band’s new casino will rival the size of its flagship casino about 40 miles away in New Buffalo, but lack the 18-story, 500-room hotel and much of the tribal village it outlined in a 2012 federal application for the site on South Bend’s southwest side, near the U.S. “We’re not going to try and necessarily make it so that it can make up a certain percent of the budget.” “I have told people we will just deal with the activity that we can estimate and that’s what we’ll plug into our formula,” said Brown, a Crawfordsville Republican. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Tim Brown said the state has adjusted to the decline.
