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Hospitality
Project Name	City	State	Sub-Category
Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa	Chandler	AZ
Casino del Sol Phases I & II	Tucson	AZ
Casino del Sol Amphitheater	Tucson	AZ
Desert Diamond Casino	Tucson	AZ
Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino	Fresno	CA
Jackson Rancheria Hotel & Conference Center	Jackson	CA
Black Oak Casino	Tuolumne	CA
Valley View Casino	Valley Center	CA
Sandia Casino & Resort	Albuquerque	NM
Santa Ana Star Casino	Albuquerque	NM
Isleta Casino & Resort	Albuquerque	NM
Fire Rock Casino	Church Rock	NM
Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino	Santa Fe	NM
Las Campanas Spa & Tennis Club	Santa Fe	NM
City Center	Las Vegas	NV
Riverwind	Oklahoma City	OK
Cherokee Casino Resort	Tulsa	OK
Cherokee Casino Resort: West Siloam	West Siloam	OK

Project Name	City	State	Description
Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa	Chandler	AZ	This project will included a new hotel/conference center will include 250 rooms and suites. The conference center will provide 8,000 square feet of ballroom space and 3,600 square feet of breakout and exterior space for meetings. The casino will offer guests 1300 machines, 48 table games, a 24 table poker room, a high limit area, a dedicated non-smoking slot area and a new parking garage. An event venue with seating capacity of over 1,500 guests will have the ability to be transformed into a dynamic nightclub when the theater is not in use. Food and beverage choices will include a 120-seat food court, and three restaurants. $150 million cc.
Casino del Sol Phases I & II	Tucson	AZ	Casino Del Sol is a new, highly themed, 240,000 square foot Class III gaming facility for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe in Tucson, Arizona. The project is located on tribal land that has a half-mile frontage along Valencia Road, to the southwest of Tucson, Arizona. It will be the tribe's second casino. For this fast-track project, Chavez-Grieves Consulting Engineers, Inc. is providing structural design and engineering services. This project will be completed in two phases. Phase I includes a 70,000 square foot facility to temporarily operate up to 500 slot machines, as well as a 4,200 seat amphitheater. The main core of the Phase I building will be renovated after Phase II opens to house a 36-lane bowling center. Phase II will complete the build-out of the casino and entertainment facility, estimated at 240,000 square feet. Included in Phase II was a 15-table poker room, a 1,000-seat bingo hall, an off-track betting counter, 9,000 square feet of expansion space and multiple-themed dining venues.
Casino del Sol Amphitheater	Tucson	AZ	The Casino Del Sol Amphitheater is set against the backdrop of Black Mountain in Tucson and is designed to seat 4,400 guests. The amphitheater is designed to house a variety of social and cultural events with a strong emphasis on a summer concert series for the Tucson regional area. The concept of the design is to link the amphitheater to the hotel and casino through a series of plazas and pathway providing the guest with a full range of entertainment activities. The state-of-the-art ticketing gate is anchored by a tower element, which provides the architectural and visual connection to all of the developments venues.
Desert Diamond Casino	Tucson	AZ	In 2007, a new 164,000 square foot casino and 180,000 foot hotel in Tucson for the Tohono O’dham Nation was completed. The casino provides space for 1300 machines, 24 table games, a 300-seat bingo hall with keno, and a dedicated poker room with 12 tables. A full spectrum of amenities includes a food court, a 250 seat buffet, an upscale 125 seat steakhouse, and a dynamic 200-seat nightclub. The new facility was designed on a portion of an existing parking lot by some undeveloped land adjacent to the existing casino. Careful attention was given to planning for the continuous operation of the existing casino to minimize the impacts to customers and the bottom line cash flow. During the entire construction and design process, there was no downtime as the existing facility was closed and the new casino was opened simultaneously. The hotel was designed to 4-star standards, with 150 rooms and junior suites. The facility also boasts a 6,000 square feet conference facility with separate breakout rooms and pre-function space.
Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino	Fresno	CA	Located near Yosemite National Park, Chukchansi offers guest the unique experience of an entertainment resort. With 11 additional floors, the addition to Chukchansi boasts luxury accommodations, 7 new restaurants, cafes bars as well as 2000 slots, 41 table games and a poker room with 12 poker tables.
Jackson Rancheria Hotel & Conference Center	Jackson	CA	Chavez-Grieves is working with eSteel and the Worth Group Architects out of Denver for a casino expansion for the Jackson Rancheria Band of Miwuk Indians. Resulting design, interiors and construction responsibilities includes a $15 million, 61,500 square foot, two-story casino expansion, tribal administration areas, and a three-story, 300-space parking structure connected to existing hotel and gaming areas by a pedestrian bridge. The team is currently working on a second parking garage for the site.
Black Oak Casino	Tuolumne	CA	Phase II of this project will be a three-story structure with 164,770 square feet and a construction cost of $60 million. Included in this phase will be a bakery, fine dining restaurant, a 300-seat entertainment lounge, Tuolumne Band of Miwuk Indians Tribal gaming offices, administrative offices and back of house services. The upper level will contain the children’s entertainment area, a bowling center, a video arcade and a fast food restaurant. Chavez-Grieves Consulting Engineers, Inc. is working with KGA Architects out of Dallas. Phase I included a 20,000 square foot metal building with a freestanding false facade. It contains 600 slot machines, 6 gaming tables, a central bar and a restaurant. The facade consists of columns made of stone that is indigenous to the area and large abstracted black oak leaves built of metal. After the Phase I metal building is removed, the freestanding wall will remain as signage for the permanent building. Phase II opened 2005.
Valley View Casino	Valley Center	CA	Construction is underway on the casino’s new six-story parking garage that will add 1,200 parking spaces bringing the total to 2,000. This new parking facility is scheduled to open at the end of 2006. The casino is 12 miles north of Escondido, California. The expansion will also add 450 new slot machines and 8 new table games, creating a total of over 1,700 slot and video poker machines and 18 exciting table games. Three new bars will be added to the casino, including an elegant steakhouse lounge, an entertainment bar with live music and a poker bar in the smoke-free slot area. Valley View will also be adding a special events center as the perfect venue to host intimate concerts, parties and other spectacular events. The expansion will add six new dining venues, including an all-new buffet, an innovative steakhouse, a 24-hour café featuring American and Asian-inspired cuisine, a walkup homemade pastry and coffee bar, an ice cream shop and an all-new team member dining room and grill. Chavez-Grieves Consulting Engineers is the structural engineer. Architect is JCJ Blackman of San Diego.
Sandia Casino & Resort	Albuquerque	NM	This new 210,000 square foot, one-story structural steel building includes administrative and conference space, a dining area, slots and table games area, bingo hall and retail shops. This is supported on top of a two-level underground pre-cast concrete parking structure of approximately 386,000 square feet. Chavez-Grieves provided the structural engineering and construction documents and served as the engineer of record on the structural steel portion of the project. Also included in the design is a 60 foot diameter rotunda structure, supporting as much as 30 feet of sandstone and interfacing with a timber entry canopy Porte Cochere. This design-build project is the largest casino in New Mexico. The new $88 million casino was completed in the spring of, 2001. The crescent-shaped structure features views of the Sandia Mountains through a 40-foot high glass wall at the back of the facility. Natural materials indigenous to the area were used in the structure; wood vigas and latillas were incorporated into the pueblo-style design. A two-level, 800-car parking facility will be underground to minimize land use. Gaming facilities include a bingo hall that will seat up to 850, a fine-dining restaurant, a 250-seat buffet restaurant, a deli, a gift shop, an entertainment lounge, meeting space, the largest poker room in the state and up to 1,300 slot machines. The site also features a large outdoor grass amphitheater that seats 3,000.
Santa Ana Star Casino	Albuquerque	NM	This 33,000 square foot addition to the Star Hollywood Casino at the Santa Ana Pueblo consists of the gaming areas, lounge, restaurant, kitchen and other miscellaneous support spaces. Chavez-Grieves provided structural design and engineering, topographical surveys, grading and drainage, on-site utility design, and roadway design for vehicular access. Chavez-Grieves Consulting Engineers, Inc. also coordinated with the required agencies:  Santa Ana Pueblo, The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District. The structural system consists of a structural steel framing system supporting steel joist with metal decking. Light gage steel stud framing was used for the periphery of the addition. Lateral loads are resisted with chevron-braced frames, utilizing shallow spread footings.
Isleta Casino & Resort	Albuquerque	NM	Gaming Palace, Conference Center, Hotel Complex.  A $37.2 million project.   Chavez-Grieves provided civil engineering services for the new complex to include design surveys, hydrology analysis, grading and drainage, storm water, water, fire protection, gas, and sanitary sewer.  Several site layouts for traffic circulation, parking, service access, and pedestrians were developed for consideration.  The final layout accounted for interface with the existing Casino facilities and Highway 47 as well as future growth within the resort area.  A high voltage electric transmission line required relocation and Chavez-Grieves was active in the coordination with the utility company.  The new site for the Complex is more than 64 acres in size.  During the final design of the on-site features, value engineering resulted in several design modifications saving the client over $250,000 in estimated construction costs.
Fire Rock Casino	Church Rock	NM	Fire Rock Casino is the Navajo Nation’s first gaming venture. This sprung structure is 63,175 square feet that reduced both construction cost and construction time. The casino was designed and constructed in 36 weeks and total project cost was $24 million. This facility has 472 slot machines, 10 table games and a poker room and is a temporary home until a permanent site is located.
Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino	Santa Fe	NM	This $250 million destination resort features a 387-room Hilton full-service resort, a 79-suite Homewood Suites by Hilton, a spa, convention facilities, entertainment venues and a new casino. The site of this new resort is on 92 acres of Pojoaque tribal land, located 12 miles north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is being built adjacent to the Towa Golf Resort. Both hotels are owned by The Pueblo of Pojoaque and will be operated by Hilton Hotels Corporation under a management agreement. The five-story resort hotel encompasses 490,000 square feet. It includes two wings, with a total of 377 rooms (410 bays), a two-story atrium in lobby, vacation station, exercise room, spa, administration, four-pipe/fan coil or heat pump HVAC system, proposed cast-in-place concrete structure, full-service laundry and dry-cleaning. The casino and theater will encompass 172,000 square feet. The Casino will include a 45,000 square foot gaming floor, 1,200 to 1,500 gaming positions, casino back of house, and support. The theater will have 784 seats, an elevated stage, dressing rooms and a loading dock. The restaurants, retail promenade, parking garage, vacation station and conference center totals 176,300 square feet. The exhibition hall seats 5,000 and includes an elevated stage. Outdoor facilities include tennis courts, two outdoor pools, and an indoor pool, an amphitheater, and exterior water features. The architect is Thalden-Boyd of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a Native American firm that specializes in the design and architecture of hotels, casinos and related hospitality projects. Chavez-Grieves Consulting Engineers, Inc. is the structural engineer for the complex.
Las Campanas Spa & Tennis Club	Santa Fe	NM	This 50,000 sf health and fitness center includes an Olympic-size pool, spa facilities, locker rooms, an aerobics facility, weight station, restaurant, and a golf pro shop.
City Center	Las Vegas	NV
Riverwind	Oklahoma City	OK	A new 243,000 square foot casino at Interstate 35 and Oklahoma Highway 9 for the Chickasaw Nation. The casino will have 2000 slots, 50 tables, a 300 seat bingo hall, theater and off track betting.
Cherokee Casino Resort ****?	Tulsa	OK	This $125 million dollar expansion will add a 20-story tower to the existing Cherokee Catoosa Casino, expanding its convention and tourism business. The expansion will add 350,000 square feet, with 30,000 new square feet of convention space and an additional 75, 000 square feet of other meeting areas. With 200 new hotel rooms, the Cherokee Catoosa Casino aims to be Oklahoma’s first resort destination. The expansion will add a fine dining facility as well as a buffet and three additional eateries. In addition, 750 new electronic games will be added to the floor as well as many poker tables. The facility will also offer guests the convenience of a 507,000 square foot parking garage.
Cherokee Casino Resort: West Siloam	West Siloam	OK	Construction is underway on the new $83 million, 200,000 square foot casino with 600 new electronic games, 10 more poker and table games, restaurants, nightclub with a stage and dance floor. Within walking distance, is a new 7-story, 115,000 square foot hotel with 140 rooms.