The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, which this week announced its purchase of a construction firm with offices in northern Indiana and southwest Michigan, also recently created a similar company in South Bend.
Expanding into businesses beyond gambling is part of a strategy to diversify the tribe's economic base and provide more job opportunities for all citizens, including members of the band, said Troy Clay, chief executive officer of Mno-Bmadsen, the non-gaming economic development enterprise of the tribe.
Mno Bmadsen on April 7 announced its acquisition of D.A. Dodd, a union mechanical contracting firm established in 1995 in Rolling Prairie.
The firm expanded into Benton Harbor three years later and since then has opened sites in Mishawaka and Lafayette.
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