The new facility is estimated to employ more than 600.

Two dining options are also available for guests, along with an entertainment venue offering a cocktail bar and live music. The 170,000-square-foot casino and hotel offers 850 electronic games, table games and a private High Limit poker room. Cherokee Nation Entertainment is the wholly owned gaming, hospitality, retail and tourism entity of the Cherokee Nation.Ĭherokee Nation and Cherokee Nation Entertainment officials broke ground on the new $80 million resort in April 2014. event are Bill John Baker, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, and Shawn Slaton, CEO of Cherokee Nation Businesses. The new casino area of the project was opened in July.Įxpected to attend the 11 a.m. It’s the second multi-million gaming operation to expand in recent years on the Oklahoma side of the Fort Smith metro area.

Officials with the Cherokee Nation are set to formally open the entire new $80 million Cherokee Casino & Hotel Roland complex at a Thursday (Dec.

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