The Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe has confirmed its plans for a new casino on a 12-acre site near Prescott Arizona.
The site will offer 50,000 square feet of casino space and up to 80 hotel rooms.
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The town of Prescott can be found in the state of Arizona (United States). Containing 41000 inhabitants, it is deemed a medium town. There are 2 casinos in Prescott: Bucky'S Casino Prescott and Yavapai Casino Prescott. They offer a significant choice of betting tables and slot machine games. Yavapai and Bucky's Casinos in Prescott also plan to open on June 1 at 8 a.m. Machines and tables are laid out to ensure physical distancing, according to the casinos.
'At this point, we don't know what we'll call it or what the design will look like,' Tribal General Manager Rich Marcum told Indian Country Today Media Network. 'We're planning a strategic focus group for tribal member input and we have the summer to determine those details.'
Marcum said an architectural plan should be in place by June and that the tribe feels the time to build is now.
Prescott already has two casinos—Bucky's Casino and Yavapai Casino. The tribe's new casino would be located along the area's main highway, Arizona 69, at the intersection of the Yavpe Connector.
By Joanna Dodder Nellans for The Daily Courier
The Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe plans to build a new resort casino at this location, the intersection of Highway 69 and Yavpe Connector.
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The Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe plans to break ground this fall on a new casino on its reservation at the northeast corner of Highway 69 and the Yavpé Connector, opening it by the end of 2016.
Tribal General Manager Rich Marcum confirmed the plans Tuesday to The Daily Courier.
The news release doesn't offer any more details about the new resort's design, but it does say the Leo A Daly architecture, engineering and interior design firm will be working on it.
Tribal leaders planned to make the announcement at a press conference tomorrow, but a lessee at the tribe's Frontier Village Shopping Center beat them to it.
Marcum declined to answer any questions about the new casino until the press conference takes place at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Granite Mountain Room of the tribe's Prescott Resort and Conference Center at the corner of highways 69 and 89.
The tribe already operates two casinos next to Prescott: Bucky's at its Prescott Resort and Conference Center on top of a hill overlooking the city, and Yavapai on the other side of Highway 69.
The Yavapai College Regional Economic Development Center calculated that the new casino resort will have an $80M economic impact on the Prescott region over the next 18 months, the news release states. That includes the direct and indirect benefits of the project cost as well as related increased spending in local economies.
The tribe opened its Yavpé Connector road about a year ago. It's the shortest connector between highways 89 and 69. The tribe also leveled a site below the Prescott Resort in 2006 for a cultural center and at one point announced it could be open by early 2014, but so far no construction has occurred there.
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