It wouldn’t so much be a new casino, but the relocation of the current gaming house with the same number of machines and tables as the current facility, which is about a mile east. Plans for the project include a 160,000-square-foot casino as part of a five-story, 300-room hotel.
There also would be a tribal fire station and a gas station with a convenience store. Plans are to build a 729,000-square-foot resort development that would include a mix of shops, restaurants, a convention center, arena, spa and fitness center and a parking structure at Lake Park Drive and Soboba Road. It is already owned by the tribe, which operates the nearby Country Club at Soboba and adjoining Soboba Springs Golf Course. The land covers 535 acres on Soboba Road, west of Lake Park Drive and the current casino. The Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians is hoping to build a new facility on land recently added to its reservation near San Jacinto. Soboba Casino has made great strides in its first 20 years – and will surely make more in its next two decades if expansion plans proceed as planned.
