Sky River Casino will be the Wilton Rancheria tribe’s new Elk Grove resort, the name unveiled in a ceremony Tuesday with an opening date set for the second half of 2022.
“It’s a good day,” Wilton tribal elder and former chairwoman Mary Tarango, said after leading the crowd of several hundred tribal members, local and regional officials in prayer on the Promenade Parkway site near Highway 99. “Remember our ancestors — and our elders who believed this monumental day would come.”
Tarango and other Rancheria and civic leaders at Tuesday’s groundbreaking for the $400 million project hailed the day as not only an economic boon to an Elk Grove seeking to emerge from its reputation as a bedroom community but as another step toward Wilton tribal self-sufficiency.
