“My knowledge, my experience, my know-how, my ability to get things done is the characteristics that I need in doing the job as chief and I feel that with everything that has been going on in the last four years, I am the right person at the right place at the right time to lead our tribe. “I don’t make promises, I make statements, and if I make a statement, then I’m pretty sure I can get it done,” he said.
Harris also talked about his role as a leader. Brian Harris said he would like lawmakers to allow only Native American tribes to run any new casinos in North Carolina. They have a pretty good sub and there is a showmars at the 321 exit. If you are going south 85 from Charlotte, on cox rd Gastonia there is a harris teeter. If you stay on 74 business there is a food lion, hardees, mcdonalds, further down are some sub shops and a pizza hut. He also said North Carolina could commercialize casinos and he has heard about talks to add several casinos in North Carolina that would compete with casinos in Virginia. The construction of Two Kings casino, less than a mile down the road, has set this area up as an economic stronghold for decades. There are several options in Kings Mountain NC. We don’t want to build something so big that even though you’ve got 1,000 patrons in there, it looks empty, so we’re gonna have to adjust to the market, and be more marketable.” “I feel like our philosophy six months ago was ‘build it and they will come.’ But now that we’re going to (possibly) be surrounded by competition, we have to do it the right way. The Catawbas opened the casino in July of 2021.
