'Clark and the trades are doing an outstanding job,' Shaganaby said. There are 20-25 members of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians (Gun Lake Tribe) working on the project as part of an agreement with the trades and contractors. Structural steel at the site began to go up this spring, and work on the $75 million project is expected to wrap up in the summer of 2017. John Shaganaby, CEO of the Gun Lake Tribal Gaming Authority, said the first generation of plans for a larger casino were scaled back because of financing and government regulatory issues, 'but now we're in a position to make our facility into was it was originally designed for,' he said.

The project is being led by construction manager Clark Construction.īreaking into the casino's existing west wall will yield space for 500 more slot machines (there are currently 1,625) a new high-limit room, a 300-seat buffet restaurant, a new employee dining room and lounge, additional space for personal lockers, and a new Stage 131 entertainment lounge that will double the current size. 131 between Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo, the building trades are in the process of providing the casino about 73,000 square feet of new space - nearly double the 83,000 square-feet of space in the existing footprint of the casino, which opened in February 2011.

WAYLAND - More room for gaming, eating and entertainment is on the way to the Gun Lake Casino.

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