Reporters Get Sneak Peak at Red Hawk Casino

CALIFORNIA -- As reported by the Folsom Telegraph: "Progress on Red Hawk Casino includes a pretty porte-cochere, a pandemonium of hammered steel and aluminum and plans for the stretch drive.

"The
Red Hawk Casino  casino will open in December near Shingle Springs. It was open Thursday to a media tour exclusive to The Telegraph.

"To stand near the porte-cochere, or place where visitors will leave cars for valet parking, already hints at a feeling of glamour that will greet those who arrive at night.

"'There'll be several waterfalls, with fire behind – propane fire,' said Tribal Chairman Nicholas Fonseca of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians. 'It's going to be beautiful.'

"...An intricate fan of wooden arches sweeps from north to northwest at the establishment's front entrance. It's near there, too, that bottomed-out victims of the cards, the dice or the slots will confront the lip of an all-too-conveniently located 100-foot sheer precipice.

"...'It's going to open about a month early, in September,' Fonseca said.

"Inside now resembles a James Bond movie set, or maybe Austin Powers, with every surface of silvery steel or aluminum. Hundreds of workers, including Creamon Alston of KHS&S Contractors, are knitting together a skeleton eventually to be fleshed in what Fonseca calls a posh but not glitzy casino interior.

"...Red Hawk's view from indoors will span around 260 degrees, but Fonseca is mulling an observation deck atop a hilltop water tank some 100 yards above the casino's top floor. That view would be 360 degrees..."