The Forest County Potawatomi Community announced it will start construction later this year on a second hotel tower at Potawatomi Hotel & Casino in Milwaukee. The new 16-story tower will have 150-200 rooms and 30-70 suites. The current 19-story, 381-room hotel, including 16 suites and a presidential suite on the top floor, was built in 2014 and today is the third largest in the area. The new tower also will offer more meeting space beyond the current hotel’s seven meeting rooms with 12,000 square feet of space. A walkway will connect the two towers.
Originally opened in a pole barn as a bingo parlor in March 1991, today Potawatomi Hotel & Casino attracts more than 6 million visitors a year and employs 2,700 people.
Spokesman Ryan Amundson said at this time the tribe has no further specified plans for future development. “Potawatomi Hotel & Casino has a long history of growth in Milwaukee’s Menomonee Valley. With that in mind, leadership within the tribe and at the business is constantly examining ways to improve the property to benefit our millions of guests, thousands of team members and our owners, the Forest County Potawatomi. Any large expansion of the property must go through a rigorous legislative process and significant planning.”
