The Seneca Nation of New York is on track to complete a $40 million casino expansion project.
The Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino in downtown Buffalo is seeing a 57,000 square-foot addition. The two-story structure will offer space for more than 300 slot machines, table games, a high-limit area, a performance stage, a restaurant and retail.
"It's very rare that one entity or a single business builds so much," President Maurice John said at the ceremony where the final steel beam was placed on top of the structure, TWC News reported. "We do not ask for handouts, grants or money to do this. We do it for the benefit of the local community and ultimately, the benefit of the Seneca people."
John said the project will create more than 300 new jobs at the casino.
The facility current employs about 500 people.
The expansion will be complete in the spring of 2017.
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