Every once In a while a comment comes in asking what the timeline of the Seneca Casino is looking like. We’ve been seeing some action down at the sight over the last couple of weeks, so I made a call to Rajat Shah, Senior VP of Corporate Development (Business First Forty Under 40 award recipient). I asked Rajat if he could simplify the timeline, so that we could monitor what would be happening in the future at the site. Here is his report:
“Right now they’re excavating the land in preparation of pouring the foundations for the hotel and the garage (parking ramp). That will last through the end of April. Beginning of April workers will start to drive the piles that will help for the support of the structures. In May they will begin the pouring of the foundations... starting with the garage and then leading to the podium (industry lingo for the casino). The foundations will take eight to ten weeks. The hotel tower will then start in July. After the foundations are set we begin erecting structural steel. For the casino that takes about twelve weeks… and then the timeline for the tower (hotel) will be about twenty-six weeks. The casino (opening late spring 2010) should open two to three months before the hotel opens (summer 2010). When the casino opens, the temporary casino (and flat surface parking lot) will shut down and that land will become parkland.”