Preliminary site work has begun for the Cowlitz Indian Tribe’s future casino-resort near La Center.
Although the official groundbreaking isn’t slated until early January, Swinterton Builders of Portland already is setting up, moving dirt around and getting stormwater protections in place, tribe Chairman Bill Iyall said Monday.
“We don’t want to work in the mud, basically, in the middle of winter,” he said.
The tribe is building a $14 million casino-resort with a hotel and shopping center on the tribe’s new 152-acre reservation, just west of Exit 16 on Interstate 5 outside of La Center city limits.
