“We’re excited to begin the development of this very attractive project on behalf of North Fork Tribe,” Cootey said during the company’s first-quarter earnings conference call last month.

Red Rock Resorts Chief Financial Officer Stephen Cootey said last month the casino operator and the North Fork tribe expected “to have a shovel in the ground” shortly after the end of June, which would begin a 15-to-18-months construction project. The company is without a tribal gaming contract after its three previous management deals – two in California and one in Michigan – expired. The competing court rulings leave Red Rock Resorts’ Indian gaming venture in limbo. Department of Interior ruling that permitted the tribe to utilize a 305-acre off-reservation site for the casino. However, the ruling by the judges contradicted a separate decision by the California Supreme Court last fall that green-lighted the project. The tribe has an agreement with Las Vegas-based Red Rock Resorts subsidiary Station Casinos to develop and manage the $350 million to $400 million off-reservation gaming project. A California appellate court tossed a roadblock in front of Red Rock Resorts’ planned development of a tribal-owned casino near Fresno that has been tied up in legal maneuverings for some 18 years.Ī three-judge panel said the defeat of a 2014 statewide ballot referendum precluded California’s governor from signing a gaming compact with the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians.

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