Renovations at the Ojibwa Casino in Baraga, Michigan are running about one month behind schedule, officials said. The million upgrade at the property now will be completed in March 2018. Meanwhile, construction is on time at the tribe’s million expansion at its casino in Marquette, scheduled for completion in September 2018.
Ojibwa Casinos General Manager Donald Wren said, “The Marquette property is moving right along. We’re running a little behind where we want to be in Baraga. But with every construction project we do, or what everybody does, it’s always the site issues that hold you up.”
Wren said new active “smoke eaters” and new heating and cooling units are being installed at Baraga.
The Marquette facility will have a new 76-room hotel, 400-seat convention center and 1,200-seat concert venue, and will create 50 new jobs, Wren said. “It moves from this small little gaming facility with a little grill to a full-fledged opportunity for people to come in and be completely entertained and not just on the gaming side. It’s going to be exciting opportunity both for the tribe, for the employees and the community,” Wren said.
