The Hotel featured in this Centennial Golf Club ad is none other than the Medford Hilton Homewood Suites: a construction project by Wright Hotel Development. This ad ran in the July 2009 issue of Horizon Air magazine.
'Tent' gives way to glitz and granite
The well-appointed $60 million Three Rivers Casino changes the face of a small coastal town
By LORI TOBIAS
THE OREGONIAN, December 2, 2007
FLORENCE—When the temporary structure for Three Rivers Casino opened its doors in 2004, people referred to the green plastic structure as the tent, the bubble, even likening it to a Quonset hut.
Members of the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, having gambled $13 million on the venture, were not amused. Now they can afford a chuckle at the casino's humble beginnings in the 16,000-square-foot tent.
After 3 1/2 years, the tribe is moving the casino operation into a $60 million structure nearly six times the size of the old place. "Here it is, 3 1/2 years from opening the tent, and we are opening a facility that is full featured, full of amenities and could be described as a destination resort," said Bob Garcia, assistant general manager of the Three Rivers Casino, and tribal council chairman...
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Three Rivers counts down to opening day
By THERESA BAER
SIUSLAW NEWS, December 1, 2007
Three Rivers Casino hosted a tour for the media last week as work crews quietly buzzed about the gleaming new facility in preparation for its Dec. 3 opening.
On Nov. 29 Bob Garcia, chairman of the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians,' and Mike Rose, vice president and general manager of the casino facility, hosted the tour that took reporters across the casino floor, through five new restaurants and an 8,500-square-foot events center, and to the 93 guest rooms of the new three-story hotel...