How can another center for the encouragement of addiction and homelessness be good for the City? Or anybody?
Lacey taxpayers have a big investment in the Hawks Prairie area. They paid for the infrastructure because at that time, that investment was supposed to pave the way for retail development that would significantly add to the revenue for the City. It was an investment that has now gone 'sideways'. The City's taxpayers will not recoup their investment, but instead will have yet another headache to deal with. Why is the City happy with this giveaway of such a strategic gateway to the City?
And why would the Tribe, whose members already suffer from the effects of addition and homelessness in numbers that far exceed their demographic, be interested in compounding the problem? Better for the Tribe would be a center that would showcase the cultural richness of the Salish people, that would encourage its members to aspire to raise that culture to the status it deserves. Better that it would offer an alternative to addiction, substance abuse, homelessness and all other attendant ills. A casino is not the embodiment of tribal culture. It is a cheap default, some kind of acknowledgment that this is the best it can offer its members. I don't agree. This high profile location could be so much more...
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