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Code § 4-29.5); City of South Bend local agreement, 2016
The only tribal casino in Indiana stands in this county, fifteen miles from this town — close enough to require a boundary, too far to share a record. The record, at the compact's strength: the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi's South Bend site — some 166 acres bounded by Prairie Avenue, US 31 and Locust Road — was taken into trust on 29 November 2016; Four Winds South Bend opened 16 January 2018 with Class II gaming; the Band requested Class III negotiations on 13 August 2019; and the resulting tribal-state compact — Indiana's first, codified at Ind. Code § 4-29.5, ratified by the General Assembly in 2021 — authorises the full Class III range (slots, table games, sports wagering) for a 20-year term, with the Band sharing 10 percent of slot win with state and local government, alongside the City of South Bend's own 2016 local agreement (payments in lieu of taxes and community commitments). Tested for a Lakeville side, as the item requires: no term of the compact, the local agreement, or the trust record names Lakeville or Union Township — no payment, mitigation, service duty or revenue share runs to this town; the site is the City of South Bend's, the agreement is the city's, and the county's other towns stand outside both. Lakeville's casino fact is therefore exhausted by proximity and by corridor: its residents reach Four Winds up US 31, the same road this build's corridors file owns — a consumer fact, not a civic one, and printed at exactly that size so the county's casino is never mistaken for the town's.