Choctaw Casinos and Resorts demolishes original hotel, making way for future development - The Dallas Morning News

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Choctaw Casinos & Resorts is tearing down its original hotel to make way for potential future development.

Demolition is underway of the Choctaw Inn, a 100-room hotel built in the early 2000s in Durant, Okla.

“We are sad to see the Inn go,” said Heidi Grant, executive officer of gaming and hospitality for the Choctaw Nation division of commerce, in a statement. “It will always be an important part of our history and symbolize our beginnings and the start of our success in this casino and resort business.”

Tearing down the inn is part of a larger remodeling project of Choctaw’s Grand Tower, located right off the casino floor. The Grand Tower will undergo extensive remodeling this summer to add some of the same aesthetics of Choctaw’s latest 21-story $600 million Sky Tower with 1,000 hotel rooms.

The Grand Tower remodeling is being managed by Tutor Perini Building Corp., a builder of hospitality and gaming projects for over 25 years.

Choctaw and other tribes pay fees to the state of Oklahoma based on revenue from gaming activities. For fiscal 2021, tribal casinos generated over $2 billion in revenue and sent nearly $163 million in fees to the state, a 32% increase from the previous year when casinos experienced shutdowns related to the pandemic.

The Choctaw Nation paid over $34 million in fees for fiscal 2021. The Chickasaw Nation, which operates WinStar, another casino popular with North Texans, paid $63.3 million in fees. Both casinos are within 90 minutes of Dallas-Fort Worth.

Choctaw upgraded its Durant location in 2006 and expanded again in 2010 with its first resort hotel tower. In 2015, the resort underwent a major expansion to include a Spa Tower.

In January, the Choctaw Nation unveiled plans to create a $165 million resort targeting the Broken Bow area, breaking ground this year.

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