The band announced plans in 2012 to build this 164-acre 'tribal village', which includes housing, healthcare, and government facilities, and a casino and hotel. It has since constructed a casino on lands that it claimed qualified for gaming pursuant to specific provisions of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, in South Bend, Indiana.
The band was limited to three casinos by its 2008 compact with the state of Michigan. A second, satellite casino, Four Winds Hartford, opened on August 30, 2011, and a third, Four Winds Dowagiac, opened April 30, 2013. In 2007, as a federally recognized tribe, the Pokagon Band were able to develop and Four Winds New Buffalo on the Pokagon Reservation, in New Buffalo Township in accordance with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and a compact with Michigan. The primary property is located in New Buffalo Township, Michigan, with satellite locations in Hartford, Michigan Dowagiac, Michigan and South Bend, Indiana. The casinos are owned by the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians. The Four Winds Casinos are a set of casinos located in the states of Indiana and Michigan in the United States.
