“We’re doing that through donations but also service to the community.”Īccording to Richards, the new hotel rooms will serve as a key part of this effort. “We’ve been committed to being a great partner in the community,” Richards said. “Business was growing and doing well and so we wanted to expand to offer the amenities with a hotel, spa, restaurants and the event space,” Richards explained.īeyond providing these amenities, Richards said the hotel will aim to have a positive impact on the South Bend community. “In 2018, we built South Bend without a hotel to see what the market was going to be like because we had not been in that area,” Richards said.įor Richards, the hotel was the natural next step after the casino was up and running. The hotel will include a pool, new restaurants and additional space for gambling. The massive construction will serve as an addition to the already existing casino which opened in January 2018. “There’s a need there in the community for it,” Chairwoman Rebecca Richards of the Pokagon Band Tribal Council said of the hotel. The casino is run by the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, which also operates Four Winds Casinos in New Buffalo, Hartford and Dowagiac, Michigan. It will offer 317 rooms for guests of the casino.

The facility will include 317 guest rooms, a spa, cafe, swimming pool and convection area with a ballroom and meeting spaces.įreedman said the expansion has created 350 construction jobs, and is expected to create another 350 to 400 when the casino-resort opens.įour Winds Casino South Bend is a financial supporter of WVPE.Ĭontact Gemma at or follow her on Twitter at you appreciate this kind of journalism on your local NPR station, please support it by donating here.On March 1, the city of South Bend will see the opening of a new, 23-story hotel at the Four Winds Casino.Ĭonstruction of the hotel was announced in 2019. The casino is also working on a 23-story hotel tower that’s set to be completed in early 2023. The gaming floor now holds a total of 1,900 slot machines and 27 table games. “It came to fruition, and I’m grateful for that.”

“It’s been in my head and several other people’s heads for years,” he said. The gaming floor is part of a large-scale expansion at the property, which Four Winds Chief Operating Officer Frank Freedman said has been years in the making. The expansion added 850 new slot machines and 11 new table games, as well as a dedicated video poker section - pushing the floor’s total span over 98,000 square feet. Four Winds Casino South Bend debuted its new, expanded gaming floor Thursday morning.

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