Published August 2001

Tulalips plan fun park, hotels to go with new casino

Herald Business Journal Staff

The Tulalip Tribes’ Quil Ceda Village development is destined to become a major regional entertainment, retail and lodging hub that will attract 8 million people to north Snohomish County each year, tribal officials announced at the July 27 meeting of the Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce.

For the first time, tribal leaders revealed the details of the remaining development of the site adjacent to I-5 between the 88th and 116th Street NE interchanges, announcing that the present tenants — Wal-Mart, Home Depot, a retail shopping center and Tulalip Bingo — soon will be joined by:

• A $72 million, 227,000-square-foot casino, now under construction and slated to open with 1,500 slot machines and 52 gaming tables in September 2002. “We have a hell of a market to work with,” casino Chief Operations Officer Chuck James said at the July 19 groundbreaking ceremony. “We will go from $50 million to $100 million in profits in the next few years.”
• A 308-person restaurant and buffet, a fine-dining restaurant and a family-style restaurant in the casino.
• A 500,000-square-foot premium outlet mall on 55 acres at the north end of the site.
• A 30,000-square-foot fun center with go-cart tracks, miniature golf, arcades and other entertainment.
• A 20-acre water park entertainment center, a 1,500-seat mini-amphitheater, a convention center, two hotels and a recreation vehicle park.

The Tulalip Tribes are working with state officials on a plan to widen exit 202 off Interstate 5 at 116th Street NE and expand 27th Avenue NE on the west side of the site, said John McCoy, Tribal Governmental Affairs Director.

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