A Huge $600-million Casino — Bigger Than Many Vegas Rivals — Is Coming To California Next Month - Beritaja

A monolithic caller tribal casino — large capable to rival the largest casinos successful Las Vegas — is scheduled to unfastened its doors adjacent period successful the Central Valley.

The Hard Rock Casino Tejon, which is group to unfastened Nov. 13, will beryllium the first full-scale casino successful Kern County. The spot is owned by the Tejon Indian Tribe and will beryllium managed by Hard Rock International.

The $600-million improvement is connected the tribe’s lands successful Mettler, which is conscionable southbound of Bakersfield and astatine the guidelines of the upland walk known arsenic the Grapevine, adjacent the 5 Freeway.

The gaming abstraction of about 150,000 quadrate feet rivals specified Las Vegas mega casinos arsenic the MGM Grand, the Bellagio, Aria and Mandalay Bay. The abstraction will location much than 2,000 slot machines; unrecorded array games of blackjack, Ultimate Texas Hold ’em and three-card poker; and rooms for exclusive games.

Jim Allen, president of Hard Rock International and main executive astatine Seminole Gaming, said successful a news merchandise that the casino would “set a caller modular for intermezo successful the region.”

The Tejon people struggled for generations to summation national nickname aft the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs left it disconnected its database of tribes that had general authorities status. In 2011, the people won nickname nether the Obama administration. Soon after, it began talks pinch casino operators.

Octavio Escobedo III, president of the Tejon tribe, celebrated the opening of the casino arsenic a triumph for the people and touted the economical maturation it has brought to the area, noting that the task generated thousands of building jobs and would support 1,000 imperishable positions upon opening.

“The opening of Hard Rock Casino Tejon is not only a ceremony of our Tribe’s practice and resilience but besides a bold measurement guardant successful creating opportunity and prosperity for early generations,” Escobedo said successful the news release.

In summation to gaming space, the installation will person a tribal authorities center, a aesculapian installation and lodging for people members.

The announced opening comes arsenic Hard Rock battles to open a casino successful New York — competing pinch bids from different gambling giants specified arsenic MGM Resorts International.

It besides comes amid a ineligible conflict complete different California casino.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s agency has accused the national authorities of failing to consult section officials erstwhile it greenlighted a task to build a sprawling gambling analyzable connected onshore adjacent to the municipality of Windsor successful Sonoma County.

Other section tribes, including the Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians and the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, reason the project, which was halted by a judge past month.