{"id":4715,"date":"2025-10-14T22:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/4715\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T22:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:02:30","slug":"hard-rock-casino-tejon-expected-to-open-ahead-of-schedule-bring-1k-permanent-jobs-to-kern-county-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/4715\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Rock Casino Tejon expected to open ahead of schedule, bring 1K permanent jobs to Kern County, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">KERN COUNTY, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; The Hard Rock Casino Tejon is putting the finishing touches on what county leaders call the largest private hospitality investment in <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/place\/kern-county\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kern County<\/a> history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The casino will feature a 150,000-square-foot gaming floor with more than 2,000 slot machines, over 50 live table games and VIP rooms for blackjack and baccarat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The facility is expected to create over 1,000 permanent jobs for the community. The casino is a partnership between the Tejon Tribe and Hard Rock International.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;We knew it was important to bring this project in ahead of schedule, ahead of the holidays, and that is exactly what we&#8217;re going to do. And so in just a handful of weeks, we&#8217;re going to light up this beautiful property, couldn&#8217;t be more excited,&#8221; said Chris Kelley, president of Hard Rock Casino Tejon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The casino, which is located less than 15 miles south of Bakersfield at the base of the Grapevine Mountain Pass, is set to open to the public Nov. 13.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KERN COUNTY, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; The Hard Rock Casino Tejon is putting the finishing touches on what county&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5404,151,153,152],"class_list":["post-4715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-5404","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}