We want to protect the people that work for us and the people who come visit us. “It is what causes us to consider opening in a gradual fashion. That’s really the only issue for us,” he said in the video. Oneida Indian Nation representative and CEO of Nation Enterprises, Ray Halbritter, released a video last week detailing how the Nation may reopen its casinos once it receives the go-ahead from the state - citing safety as the main concern. Although the Nation is excluded from the governor’s order, it still chose to close the locations.
The Nation closed its three casinos - Turning Stone Resort Casino, Point Place Casino, and Yellow Brick Road Casino - in mid-March before a joint order from the governors of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut that shut down all casinos, gyms and movie theaters in the tri-state area.