The buyers are currently active in due diligence, which could last until November. There will also be corresponding retail development, with the details to be determined. The city is selling property for $7.15 million to a hotel developer that, with a retail partner, plans to build a hotel with 125 to 300 rooms. This project comes amid other hotel developments in Rohnert Park. Graton Resort & Casino () is owned by the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and managed by Las Vegas-based Station Casinos LLC.

The $800 million casino opened November 2013 with a wide variety of gaming, an 8,700-square-foot events center for concerts and special events and a dozen restaurants. The deal would enable the tribe to spend up to $200 million on a hotel. On June 30, the casino paid $12.5 million for 34 acres of surrounding land, according to public records.Ī Moody’s Investor Service report in January said the tribe secured a $450 million bank facility for Graton Resort & Casino. The guest rooms are set to range in size from 500 to 2,600 square feet.Ī “centerpiece” of the expansion is the pool area, which is designed to extend from the hotel lobby and connect with the meeting space, Sarris said. The project is set to employ 1,000-plus during the job, which is set to be complete in fall 2016, and involve nearly 100 California companies.įriedmutter Group is the designer, and The PENTA Building Group is the general contractor. The casino's Facebook page is said to have the fifth-highest number of 'likes' for such a facility.Ĭonstruction of the $175 million expansion will take place on the south side of the casino and connect to it via a passage next to the existing Daily Grill restaurant. He said that the casino in two years has become highly successful.

“This is needed it’s the icing on the cake,' said Greg Sarris, chairman. It will also feature a spa, pool and 20,000 square feet of more convention and meeting room space, the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria said at a press conference this morning at the site. Groundbreaking for a much-anticipated hotel at Graton Resort & Casino took place today on a 342,000-square-foot resort addition with a six-story, 200-room hotel, making it the fourth-largest hotel in Sonoma County. ROHNERT PARK - Visitors to Graton Resort & Casino just to the northwest of Rohnert Park will soon have a place to stay and relax by the pool in a major expansion unveiled last week.

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