'In our view, the IGA represents an innovative and creative approach on the part of the City of Tucson and the Pascua Yaqui Tribe to create a framework for cooperation as the tribe seeks to take lands into trust in this important tribally recognized community - an approach that elevates communication and cooperation above all else,' Chairman Robert Valencia wrote in a letter quoted by KGUN9. Plans would move forward in connection with a proposed intergovernmental agreement (IGA) with the city. The casino would be located on a 14.38-acre parcel in Tucson.

We should have a better idea of how the new casino will look in maybe three months after tribal leaders meet with team members and the community.The Pascua Yaqui Tribe might open a third gaming facility in Arizona with the support of the local community. So the number of opportunities and the breadth of those opportunities is pretty amazing.” But really in a casino, you have food and beverage, you have gaming, you have hospitality, you have finance, right. They think of dealers, and they think of slot attendants. A hotel may come later.Īnd she expects to hire at least five hundred workers. She expects groundbreaking in a year or year and a half, with an operating casino in two to three years.

The new casino should provide a boost to the Pascua Yaqui community nearby and its location close to downtown will offer opportunities for people who might have a hard time reaching work at casinos farther from the center city. “Now it's in the possession of our tribe and I used to go there when it was Olson Dairy and also a bunch of shops towards the north west corner of that property and now you know, what a blessing as we move forward and try to figure out how we can develop that area so everybody in the Tucson area, and the adjacent barrios can have a place they can call their own.” Tribal Chairman Peter Yucupicio is looking forward to creating jobs for tribal members and Tucsonans in general on land he remembers from back in his childhood. Now the site of an old movie theater near Grant and I-10 will be cleared to become the home of a new casino for the Pascua Yaqui tribe. That allows another casino to go up there.Ĭasinos owned by the Pascua Yaqui and the tohono O’odham provide entertainment and plenty of jobs throughout southern Arizona. The Pascua Yaqui tribe has Casino del Sol and Casino of the Sun to the Southwest of Tucson Now an act of Congress has declared land the tribe owns near I-10 and Grant as official tribal land. That’s the workforce the Pascua Yaqui Tribe is expecting for a new casino complex it’s now able to build there. (KGUN) - Expect five to six hundred new jobs in the area of Grant and I-10.

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