The Salt River-Pima Indian Community is helping the state of Arizona grow into a major gaming destination, columnist Howard Stutz says:
Inside Gaming by Howard Stutz: Tribe’s Talking Stick Resort wields powerful economic clout (The Las Vegas Review-Journal 4/6)
The Salt River-Pima Indian Community has a real estate footprint in this city, 20 minutes east of downtown Phoenix, that makes the 67-acre CityCenter look like a strip mall. The tribe has built a “cultural and entertainment destination.” There is the 36-hole Talking Stick Golf Club, which was designed by noted golf course architects Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. On the opposite side of the Arizona 101 Loop is The Pavilions at Talking Stick, a 1.1 million square foot retail center. Near the shopping complex is the Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, an 11,000-seat stadium with 12 practice fields and clubhouse facilities that serve as the spring training home for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies. At the center of it all is the Talking Stick Resort, a 496-room hotel-casino. You get the picture. For two years straight, Arizona has ranked sixth out of the 28 states in terms of gaming revenue produced by Indian casinos. The newly released Casino City’s Indian Gaming Industry Report shows Arizona’s 22 tribal-owned casinos brought in more than $1.8 billion in 2012, a 3 percent increase over 2011.Get the Story:
Inside Gaming by Howard Stutz: Tribe’s Talking Stick Resort wields powerful economic clout (The Las Vegas Review-Journal 4/6)
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