Coeur d’Alene Casino
Resort Expansion Project Accelerates Toward Spring Opening
The Home of Highly Acclaimed Circling Raven Golf Club in Northern Idaho
Panhandle to Add Luxurious Hotel Rooms, Spa, Gourmet Steakhouse and Outdoor
Amphitheater
(WORLEY, ID) – The massive expansion at the
Coeur d’Alene
Casino Resort
is under budget and well-ahead of schedule and
officials expect the $85-million project to be completed in the
spring of 2011.
The project, which broke ground in June of last year,
will add two
new four-story buildings and nearly 100 opulent hotel rooms. The
resort will now be home to 300 rooms overall, including two new
wings overlooking the resort’s highly acclaimed championship
golf course, Circling Raven Golf Club (www.CirclingRaven.com).
The Gene Bates-design has received numerous best-in-class
awards since opening in 2004, including GOLF magazine’s Top-
100 “Courses You Can Play” and Golfweek’s “Best Casino
Courses.”
In addition, the expansion will include a centerpiece
pub area
called Yap-Keehn-Um (which means “gathering place” in the
Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s Salishan language), a gourmet steakhouse,
a fitness center, a 15,000 square-foot deluxe spa and pool as well as a
vast, 10-acre “front yard” that will offer a natural amphitheater for
concerts and other outdoor events.
“The amenities we’re going to offer will match or
surpass any we currently know of in the Pacific Northwest,” said CDA Casino
Resort CEO David LaSarte Meeks. “The spa will be world class. Our new
hotel wings will provide every comfort and luxury of a five-star property.
We will host groups and events both indoors and out and in ways never
before available in the Inland Northwest. We are dramatically expanding the
resort and dramatically expanding the experience that our guests can expect
at the Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort.”
The Coeur d’Alene Tribe – which is already one of
North Idaho’s largest employers – is set to hire an additional 200 workers
after the expansion project is completed.
“The Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort is as strong an
example as there is for Indian Gaming and what it is meant to accomplish,”
added Coeur d’Alene Tribe Chairman Chief Allan. “We have made promises.
We have kept every one of them. In fact, we’ve gone far beyond our promises
to create a better quality of life for so many people. Overall, the tribe
may be the biggest employer in North Idaho. But we want more than that. We
believe we are the best employer in the region and we are committed to
remaining so.”Idaho Best Western offers
special stay-and-play golf packages at top area coursesThe
Best Western University Inn property on the Palouse in Moscow, Idaho is
offering exclusive Stay-and-Play Golf Packages that will allow golfers to
play some of the best courses the Pacific Northwest has to offer, including
Circling Raven.
The packages start at just $190 and include one night
accommodation and a round of golf at either Circling Raven, The University
of Idaho Course, Lewiston Golf Club, Palouse Ridge Golf Club or Coeur
d’Alene Resort Course. Or for just $806 per person, play four of the
courses on consecutive days and receive three night’s accommodations and
three breakfasts.
The Inn is convenient to both the University of Idaho
and Washington State University (located just minutes away in Pullman,
Washington) and features two on-site restaurants, a lounge, a four-season
recreation center, wireless Internet access and a shuttle service to and
from the Pullman Moscow Airport.
