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Pechanga course - a journey completed

Memorable layout offers scenery and history
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TEMECULA - Southern California’s newest golf course is called Journey at Pechanga and its slogan is “10,000 years in the making.” If that sounds a little gimmicky, like a freeway billboard for the opening of a new ride at Knott’s Berry Farm, give us a minute to put it into [...]

Former Grant Hotel Management Firm Receives Favorable Ruling

Contract Terms With Sycuan Tribe at Issue
By CONNIE LEWIS, San Diego Business Journal Staff
Michael Gallegos, who heads American Property Management, said he has received an appeal to a court decision that reverses a lower court ruling that favored the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation in lawsuits that both parties filed after the tribe fired [...]

Tribe breaks ground on new hotel

By North County Times | Monday, October 20, 2008
SAN PASQUAL INDIAN RESERVATION —- Officials with the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians broke ground Monday on their new, 161-room hotel.
The tribe owns the Valley View Casino near Valley Center. It plans to build a boutique hotel to make room for guests that want to stay [...]

Tribe will operate historic golf course

By Victor Morales, Today correspondent
Sept 24, 2008
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - A southern California tribe is taking the reins of Palm Springs’ first golf course after the operator folded.
The Palm Springs National Golf Club, formerly the Canyon Country Club, has experienced a significant drop in membership and plans to surrender the 18-hole course to the Agua [...]

Expansion for bingo-style slots planned at Valley View Casino

Tribe wants addition before hotel is builtBy Onell R. Soto, STAFF WRITER
May 21, 2008
VALLEY CENTER – The San Pasqual Indian band announced yesterday it is planning to add about 400 bingo-style slot machines to its Valley View Casino in advance of a hotel it is building.
The tribe said it plans to build a 7,000-square-foot addition [...]

Tribe cuts aspects of its resort hotel plan

Action in response to locals’ concerns
By Onell R. Soto, STAFF WRITER
May 8, 2008
The Pauma Indian band has scaled back plans for its $300 million resort hotel, cutting its tower from 23 stories to 19, trimming the size of the gambling floor and eliminating an outdoor amphitheater.

$30M Marina Gateway Plaza Enjoys Groundbreaking Moment

Michelle Mowad
4/1/2008
The Sycuan Band of Kumeyaay Indians began construction of a $30 million bay-front project April 1. Marina Gateway Plaza, which consists of a 173-room Best Western Hotel and 16,000 square feet of commercial, retail and restaurant space, is located at Bay Marina Drive and Harrison Avenue in National City, near Interstate 5.

Pechanga Closes Nightclubs Indefinitely

Brad Graves
3/21/2008
Pechanga Resort & Casino has shut down its Silk and Eagle’s Nest nightclubs for an unspecified period of time, resort management said March 20.

Tribe’s hotel plan sparks objections

Valley View Casino’s environmental report flawed, county officials say
By: EDWARD SIFUENTES - Staff Writer
March 20, 2008
A conflict may be brewing between the county and a North County American Indian tribe that wants to build a 12-story, $85 million hotel near Valley Center.

Plans for new hotel concern Valley Center residents

By: DARRYN BENNETT - Staff Writer
March 13, 2008
VALLEY CENTER — A 12-story, $85 million high-roller hotel that Valley View Casino officials have proposed to build this year will not be a welcome addition to this small, unincorporated community east of Escondido, some planning group members said this week.