Representatives of the Ak-Chin tribe could not be reached for comment. The property has undergone numerous expansions and renovations over the years and has a 500-room hotel and a 40,000-square-foot casino. The 300-room Harrah’s Valley River opened in 2015 near the city of Murphy, which is a two hour-drive from the Tennessee cities of Knoxville and Chattanooga and downtown Atlanta.Ĭaesars’ longest-standing contract is with the Ak-Chin Indian Community, having opened Harrah’s Ak-Chin 38 miles south of downtown Phoenix in 1994. The 1,100-room Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort opened in 1997 and is located approximately 50 miles southwest of Asheville, at the entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A spokesman for the Cherokees said there is a “blackout period” involving the merger and declined further comment. Tribal representatives were somewhat reluctant to discuss the Eldorado-Caesars transaction.
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