Washington Tribe Eyes 2020 for First Casino Tower

Washington’s Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe says it plans to build three hotel towers to serve its 7 Cedars Casino (l.). It plans to begin the first tower with a 2020 completion date. This first phase will cost about $22 million.

The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe is targeting 2020 to complete the first of three planned casino hotel towers at its planned resort in Blyn on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula.

The first tower, the first of five building phases, will be five stories and will include 100 rooms. It will be located west of the existing 7 Cedars Casino, which has 600 machines, but expects to eventually add 150 more. Construction should begin by next year with an opening planned just before Memorial Day weekend 2020.

The tribe’s CEO Ron Allen said the tribe expects the facility to become a destination resort that will be “unlike anything the Peninsula has seen.” Besides the hotel towers, it will have a spa, event center, RV park.

The first phase is expected to cost about $22 million, said Allen. The project will include a $7 million road to connect the casino to U.S. Highway 101.