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Article: CASINO PROJECT EAST OF HOOD RIVER APPARENTLY SHELVED BY INDIAN TRIBE
- Article from:
- The Columbian (Vancouver, WA)
- Article date:
- July 11, 2002
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An Oregon Indian tribe has put on hold -- at least temporarily
-- efforts to develop casino-related facilities on 175 acres east
of Hood River, Ore., in the heart of the Columbia River Gorge.
The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs still could build
its 75,000-square-foot casino, a parking structure and other buildings
on 40 acres of trust land it owns just south of the Historic Columbia
River Highway. But that could require a huge and expensive engineering
effort, because the wooded parcel is very steep, with slopes of at
least 60 percent.
Confining development to the 40-acre trust parcel also would require
taller buildings that would be visible for ...