By Fox23.com News Staff
COWETA, Okla. — The Muscogee Nation and Muscogee Nation Gaming Enterprises held a ribbon cutting today for the grand opening of the Coweta Casino Hotel.
The new casino hotel, located at the southeast corner of East 131st Street South and State Highway 51, in Coweta, is a 104,000 square-foot development that include a 35,000 square-foot casino with 750 new state-of-the-art gaming machines. It also includes a 46-room hotel with a pool, fitness center, concierge services, and a meeting and event space to accommodate 150 guests.
David Hill, the Principal Chief of Muscogee Creek Nation says the new casino hotel will help provide for the nation.
“In the long term, it provides services to our nation,” says Chief Hill. “It helps provide through our budget process, through housing, different social services; things that we provide. It’s all for the future generation.”
With the opening of the new casino, it will also provide for the 250 new jobs for the community.
“With 250 new permanent jobs, the Coweta Casino Hotel will be a huge boost to other local small businesses in town,” said Joe Matlock, Board president of the Coweta Chamber of Commerce and VP of BancFirst Coweta. “From gas stations to restaurants, from coffee shops to hardware stores, the people employed at these new jobs will spend their money at our local businesses, because the people employed here, are us. They will be our neighbors, our family members, our children, working, growing and living in Coweta.”
Chief Hill says he hopes the new casino hotel will bring in new tourists to Coweta and help spread the history of the tribe which includes commissioned artwork by Muscogee Nation artist Carly Treece.
“Coweta is actually one of our tribal towns back in the southeast, so to carry on that history makes it an important part of who we are.” says Hill.
