Collaborating with music impresario Sid Bernstein on the site of the former Avon Lodge Hotel in Woodridge, New York, Berman opened Music Mountain hosting artists including the Doobie Brothers, members of the Grateful Dead as the Jerry Garcia Band and Bobby and the Midnites, Ozzy Osbourne, The Allman Brothers Band, Santana and various others.
[26][27] During this time Berman worked towards building a Casino in partnership with the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation Tribe of New York.
From 2002 to 2005, Berman served as chairman and chief executive officer for Empire Resorts, a publicly traded NASDAQ ("NYNY") gaming company.
Avon's objective of deploying capitol into development, the home building business, Commercial Real Estate.
In March 2016, Berman and James (Jim) McCarthy founded KeyStone Solutions, Inc. which later Robert led into a public offering under the new company established: Rekor (REKR NASDAQ) [33] In 1993 Berman began a project involving an Internet lottery venture in collaboration with the Coeur d'Alene people tribe in Idaho.
[39][40] Anti-Mohawk ads appeared in various newspapers suggesting the negative impact a Native American casino would have on the region.
This resulted in Donald Trump receiving an unprecedented fine of $250,000 for secretly funding a lobbying campaign against Native American casinos.