People don’t have to leave Tucson, Ariz., to get a taste of Tuscany. The newly renovated Casino Del Sol Resort, Spa and Conference Center, owned by the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, offers guests the pleasures and grandeur of the Mediterranean without leaving the Sonoran Desert. Opened on the historic date Nov. 11, 2011, the renovation added 161,000 square feet to Casino Del Sol, located southwest of downtown Tucson.
There was a time when regional differences in architectural design were fairly easy to identify. No one would confuse ancient Roman architecture with ancient Greek or Chinese architecture, for example, and the differences were reflective not only of the different cultures, but also of the materials available to the builders. Regional differences remained noticeable throughout most of modern history.
Despite a seasoned history of ongoing gaming developments, legislation and news coming from the state, Illinois has a new casino in its Chicagoland area. Opened in July 2011, the Rivers Casino in Des Plaines is owned, developed and operated by Midwest Gaming & Entertainment, who obtained the tenth and final gaming license in the Prairie State.
Sycuan Casino’s renovation can be summed up in two words—exposed and holistic. The $27 million, 245,000 square-foot revamp designed by Hnedak Bobo Group (HBG) and Cleo Design focused on improving the flow of the space. “Our casino has historically suffered from the ‘repetitive addition syndrome’ that has ultimately resulted in the casino feeling very piecemeal and closed off from ...
CEM first introduced our readers to Big Span Structures in March 2011 upon completion of the company’s 70-by-100 foot open-span frame-supported fabric structure in Tallapoosa County, Ala. Commissioned by Creek Indian Enterprises for PCI Gaming, the project took just six weeks from order to completion, and was a smashing success for the gaming enterprise and for Big Span.
Looking to heat up your casino? Want something that will fire up your players to spend more time at your property? If so, you’re in luck, because in this installment of our series focusing on one aspect or feature that goes into casino/resort design and construction, we’re looking at fire features.
Four Winds Hartford Casino might be modest in size, but its impact is extraordinary. Opened Aug. 30 of this year, the 52,000-square-foot casino created approximately 400 new jobs and represented a step forward for the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians.
The casino gaming areas of the future will not, in any way, resemble the slots floors that exist today. They will be new, different, more exciting, more fun and more focused on customer enjoyment. The world is changing, and so will the casino. We’re in a period of rapidly changing everything.
Shifting gears mid-stream in a major project is not only gutsy, but also takes vision. Rather than waiting for an economic up-tick and for businesses to absorb vacant office space in downtown Phoenix, National Real Estate Advisors LLC took action. National, on behalf of the property owner, National Electrical Benefit Fund, collaborated with Westin Hotels & Resorts to build a luxury hotel smack in the middle of an existing 26-story downtown Phoenix high rise.
Rustic elegance, free spirit, nature, welcoming, warm, progressive, interconnected and native are just a sampling of the keywords Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene Tribe gave to architectural firm Mithun to describe their vision of the resort that was going into its seventh expansion project.
