The project was approved and broke ground in 2019 and officials said they hoped to complete to the project in fall of 2020.
One casino expansion project that wasn’t particularly impacted by the virus was Agua Caliente Casino Cathedral City, the third casino property owned by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. We take a look at what the pandemic meant for casino construction this year and what’s ahead as we move into 2021 with one major casino project on the horizon: San Manuel’s $550 million expansion. The novel coronavirus pandemic had mixed impacts on construction in 2020: it slowed down the construction of some projects postponed the opening of others and for some, had little to no impact.
Southern California’s tribal casinos have been in an expansion boom in recent years with multimillion dollar projects that have added lavish new hotel wings, expanded gaming floors, restaurants and more to those properties.īut this year was a little different.
