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The Roseburg News Review---June 8, 2008
Seven Feathers Hotel and Casino Resort started as a modest bingo hall in 1992.
Now it is expanding and upgrading again to become a Premium Destination Resort.
By March 2009, the Hotel and Casino Resort will feature 154 new hotel rooms, a day spa and a new 250-seat buffet.By Cara Pallone
What started as a bingo hall in 1992 and has evolved over the years to a Vegas-style casino with all the trimmings will undergo yet another expansion, totaled at $40 million.
By March 2009, the South County playground, Seven Feathers Hotel and Casino Resort, will feature 154 new hotel rooms, a day spa and a 250-seat buffet.
The hotel has been operating in excess of 90 percent the past five years, according to Bruce Schoneboom, general manager of Seven Feathers.
Bruce Schoneboom said the expansion was spawned by long waits in the current 24- hour restaurant and the fact that the hotel turns away 1,200 reservation phone calls per month.
Sue Shaffer, chairman of the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, said not only will the expansion contribute to building Seven Feathers as a premier destination resort, but also the project will furnish more than 100 jobs.
“The tribal government feels more excited about that than all the wonderful amenities we will have here and do have here,” said Shaffer.
The colors will be natural— tan, beige and sandy brown, forest green and light turquoise. The renderings of the spa and hotel suites illustrated how the finished product will be “clean and simple, but leave a very strong impression of quality,” which is how Gail Wikstrom, vice president of JE Dunn, the general contractor on the job, described the additions.
Travis Hill, director of hospitality operations for the Umpqua Indian Development Corporation, spoke at a press conference in detail about the spa and hotel suites, which will cost patrons $175 to $225 per night. The hotel suites will be 600 square feet with two 42-inch plasma TVs in each room, a wet bar, minibar and jetted hot tubs.
Hill said the River Rock Spa will be ideal for wedding parties, with a full salon offering manicures, pedicures, body wraps, massages and facials. A wet and dry sauna, a soaking tub with a rain shower and a sunless spray tanning booth top off the creature comforts. “We’ll cater to the men as well,” he said.
Guests will be welcome to sip champagne in terry cloth robes while they are pampered.
The Gathering Place, a 250-seat buffet restaurant, completes the expansion with choices of Spanish, Italian, American and Asian food, along with salad and dessert islands.
The restaurant is scheduled to open sometime this November.
Other highlights include two outdoor courtyards, an expanded video arcade, increased housekeeping facilities and, most important, a glass walkway connecting the hotel to the game floor.