Opened in June 2003, the 227,000-square-foot Tulalip Casino has a ventilation system that blows air from vents spaced about six feet apart all over the floor up through the center of the massive building.
The tribe, he said, has a master plan that includes a new, larger facility. Phillip Dorchester, general manager of the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, said Tuesday that smoke has always been an issue at the 13-year-old, 160,000-square-foot casino. On Tuesday morning, I walked through the $78 million Tulalip Casino with Vicki Cynkar, a Tulalip Resort Casino marketing representative.Ĭustomers are allowed to light up, but the air was nowhere near as thick with cigarette smoke as the nearly unbreathable atmosphere of Arizona’s Fort McDowell Casino.