Its plans for Salem includes a 180,800-square-foot casino, two hotel towers with 500 rooms, restaurants, a nightclub and sports bar, and an event center on property the tribe owns just west of Interstate 5 and south of the Chemawa Indian School. The Siletz tribe already operates its Chinook Winds Casino Resort in Lincoln City, which employs 800 people and provides the bulk of funds for the tribes various programs.
The public is invited to weigh in on the project as the federal government considers giving the casino the green light. They also warn it could bring traffic and crime problems to the area. If approved by federal and state leaders, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians’ casino would have 2,000 slots, nine poker tables, bars, lounges and 500 hotel rooms that would bring jobs, entertainment and tourism to north Salem, the tribe says.īut opponents – including the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde - say the creation of the casino would be unfair to other tribes and harm the state’s largest casino to the east in Grand Ronde.
The owners of Lincoln County’s only tribal casino are pushing ahead with its proposal to build its second casino in Oregon – a $280 million project along Interstate 5 in north Salem.
Architect’s drawing shows what a casino and motel complex proposed by the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz would look like along Interstate 5 in north Salem.īy WHITNEY WOODWORTH/Salem Statesman-Journal
