Sky River, Sacramento’s First Tribal Casino, Now Open

Sacramento County’s number one tribal gaming casino opened at midnight on Aug. 15, ii weeks onwards of schedule. The Sky River Casino — placed 15 miles due south of downtown Sacramento in Elk Grove — was highly-developed and reinforced for the Wilton carpet Rancheria Tribe past Boyd Gaming. The Las Vegas-based company is contracted to run the casino for its for the first time 7 years.

Nicknamed “Sac Vegas” in its marketing materials, Sky River required years of preparation and a reported $500 zillion to build. type A 3rd of its 300,000 straight feet is dedicated to gaming, according to the casino. That includes 2,000 slot machines, 80 tabularize games, and a 12-table poker room. The dimension also has 17 new restaurants and bars, including a steak house and tap room. Plans are to append a spa and a hotel in the future.

Curse of the Ghost Mall Lifted

Sky River holds a special implication to local residents, and not simply because 2,000 of them experience been hired as employees. It was reinforced o'er a former abandoned mall complex seen for years as a plague on the landscape.

“I cerebrate it goes back to the shade mall, so the residents of Elk Grove call up what this put looked like, and so to see what it is now, and what it is going to become, it truly is a special mo — of import to Elk Grove and also my people,” Wilton carpet Rancheria Tribal Chairman Good Shepherd Tarango told KCRA-TV/Sacramento.

The federation of tribes first proclaimed inwards 2016 that it wanted to surface a cassino in Elk Grove. California lawmakers approved a thick with the Wilton carpet Rancheria inward 2017 for the project, and the National Amerind Gaming Commission approved Boyd’s management declaration with the folk in 2018.

Gaming Changer

According to the casino, Sky River will “easily contribute” $125 1000000 to the local economy over the next few years. “This is a gamey changer, an amusement composite similar no other,” Sky River Casino President Chris Jibase told KCRA.

In an earlier military press release, Tarango described the gambling casino as “a transformative propose that will supply resources to adorn in housing, education, and health care for our to a greater extent than 800 members, to keep our linguistic communication and culture, and to throw support to the community of interests for decades to come.”

Boyd Rival Also Entered NoCal Tribe Partnerships

This isn’t the firstly time a Las Vegas gambling casino company has ventured to Northern CA for a tribal project. Station Casinos, Boyd Gaming’s rival, highly-developed the Thunder Valley Casino Resort compass north of Sacramento on behalf of the United Auburn American Indian Community.

Station managed it for septet years under a undertake that expired inward 2010. Station also managed the Graton casino-resort inward Rohnert Park, 50 miles N of San Francisco, for seven years, until Feb 2021. In both cases, the tribes have got since taken over gambling casino operations.