“We’ve been committed to being a great partner in the community,” Richards said. “Business was growing and doing well and so we wanted to expand to offer the amenities with a hotel, spa, restaurants and the event space,” Richards explained.īeyond providing these amenities, Richards said the hotel will aim to have a positive impact on the South Bend community. “In 2018, we built South Bend without a hotel to see what the market was going to be like because we had not been in that area,” Richards said.įor Richards, the hotel was the natural next step after the casino was up and running. The hotel will include a pool, new restaurants and additional space for gambling. The massive construction will serve as an addition to the already existing casino which opened in January 2018. “There’s a need there in the community for it,” Chairwoman Rebecca Richards of the Pokagon Band Tribal Council said of the hotel. The casino is run by the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, which also operates Four Winds Casinos in New Buffalo, Hartford and Dowagiac, Michigan. It will offer 317 rooms for guests of the casino. On March 1, the city of South Bend will see the opening of a new, 23-story hotel at the Four Winds Casino.Ĭonstruction of the hotel was announced in 2019.
