Washington County Sees Benefit From Casino Expansion

Washington’s Tulalip Tribes of Snohomish County are famous locally for being engines of economic activity. The third largest employer in the state, the engine just keeps chugging along, with the newest project being an expansion of an existing casino, the Quil Ceda Casino (l.).

Washington County Sees Benefit From Casino Expansion

The Tulalip Tribes of Snohomish County, Washington, currently the county’s third largest employer, are expected to generate even more economic activity now that they are continuing a series of expansions they have pursued since they first opened Quil Ceda Village.

The village is the launch pad for a new $100 million casino to replace the original Quil Ceda Casino—known locally as the “Q”—which opened in the 1990s.

The Tulalip Tribes project this project, which will include a hotel and parking structure, will create upwards of 200 new jobs. The project spreads the tribe’s eggs into more than one gaming basket with an indoor golf course, and indoor water park.

The reservation is along Interstate 5. Proposed new projects will spread north along that corridor.