Hard Rock Casino Tejon is preparing to add \u201chotel\u201d to its name after the Tejon Indian Tribe and Hard Rock broke ground on the next phase of the project: a 15-story hotel planned to open in the summer of 2028.<\/p>\n
The groundbreaking ceremony took place Wednesday morning, just ahead of the casino\u2019s one-year anniversary.<\/p>\n
Octavio Escobedo, chairman of the Tejon Indian Tribe, said the latest milestone felt different than previous ones.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not breaking ground on a promise, we\u2019re building on a promise that\u2019s already been delivered. What began as a vision has become a successful enterprise, a strong partnership and an economic presence that continues to grow. And now we\u2019re taking the next step,\u201d Escobedo said.<\/p>\n
The project\u2019s total cost is in the billions. \u201cThe entire project, hotel and casino, is a $1.3 billion project that is all privately funded by the Tejon Indian Tribe,\u201d Kathy DeGolia, the vice president of marketing, said.<\/p>\n
She said the expansion is expected to bring more jobs. \u201cWe\u2019re going to be creating at least another 300 positions,\u201d DeGolia said.<\/p>\n
Escobedo and June Nachor, vice chairwoman of the Tejon Indian Tribe, said the casino and hotel have been more than 10 years in the making.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe tribal elders that started this I\u2019d like to say thank you for your drive, your vision, everything you did to get us here to this day. To the elders here today, we hope that you are proud of us, the work that we\u2019ve done, the product that we\u2019ve given you. I just hope everyone has a great time,\u201d Nachor said.<\/p>\n
The new hotel is planned to include 406 rooms and 119 suites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hard Rock Casino Tejon is preparing to add \u201chotel\u201d to its name after the Tejon Indian Tribe and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-504257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504257","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=504257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}