A 12-story hotel tower with over 300 rooms and suites will accommodate guests of the resort. The property will feature a 110,000-square-foot casino with more than 2,000 slot machines and 80 table games. The cost to build it exceeds $500 million, it also became known. Late last year, Boyd purchased the vacant mall site that will too be used for project purposes.ĭuring the Tuesday groundbreaking ceremony, attended by tribal members, city leaders, and others, tribal officials said the future complex will operate as Sky River Casino. The US Department of the Interior placed the land into federal trust in 2017. The casino complex will be raised from the ground up on a 35.9-acre site adjacent to an unfinished shopping mall in the California City of Elk Grove in the Greater Sacramento area. It is scheduled to open doors in late 2022. Las Vegas-based casino operator Boyd Gaming will build the property and operate it on behalf of the tribe. The Wilton Rancheria tribe finally broke ground Tuesday, March 9, on its planned casino resort after years of wrangling with project opponents and other obstacles.

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