In its first phase (1995–1996), anchored by the Casino of the Earth, forty percent of the existing 650,000-square-foot UNC facility was demolished, while the remaining sixty percent was incorporated into the 630,000-square-foot complex, designed by Brennan Beer Gorman with interiors by the Rockwell Group. In 1995, the Mohegan Tribe purchased and remediated the land, once a Superfund site, to build the casino complex. ![]() Located on the ancestral home of the Mohegan Tribe, the site once housed the United Nuclear Corporation (UNC decommissioned in 1990), which assembled nuclear fuel components for submarines built down river in Groton. Some viewed potential casino jobs as the region’s immediate economic savior. Locally, the Mohegans gained political support in the 1990s as a result of massive layoffs in the then defense-based economy of southeastern Connecticut. The legalization of gaming on federally-recognized tribal lands in 1988 led to the proliferation of casinos nationwide. Both casinos’ explosive growth are a result of their location halfway between the major population centers of the Northeast megalopolis: Boston and New York. ![]() Situated on a waterfront site in the rolling hills of southeastern Connecticut and within two hours drive of twenty million gambling-age adults, the Mohegan Tribal Nation’s Mohegan Sun is one of the largest casinos in the world, and second only in the region to the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation’s Foxwoods in nearby Ledyard, Connecticut.
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