“Just imagine. Four weeks ago, there was nothing,” said Kim Pang, vice president of development at Peninsula Pacific Entertainment, the company behind the upcoming Cedar Crossing Casino & Entertainment Center. He gestured to the floor, now solid under construction workers’ feet. The building was warm, too — workers’ safety glasses fogged up as they entered the building from the outside.
Nine months after Peninsula Pacific Entertainment broke ground at the site — the day after the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission voted to grant a gaming license to build a planned $275 million casino and entertainment center near downtown Cedar Rapids — the walls, roof and core mechanical systems are all installed. Pang said the next phase of the project would focus on refining interior details for the casino and multiple facilities slated to share the site.
