“It gives us now the ability to host larger regional events, tournaments and things like that, that we couldn’t really attract before,” Lindsay said. Lindsay named the complex as an example of an asset that could get a boost from a nearby hotel. Ridgefield opened a $20 million, multi-purpose sports complex in 2019, which also serves as home base for a collegiate baseball team. Since it opened in 2017, Ilani has reshaped neighboring towns.

Officials of neighboring towns hope the new hotel will bring more economic growth to the region. The hotel - currently a glass-and-concrete construction site - served as the backdrop for guest speakers, while roughly a hundred in attendance sat outside under the casino’s portico.Ī drum circle performs on April 25, 2022, at Ilani Casino, in front of a forthcoming, 14-story hotel. The event also served to celebrate the casino’s fifth anniversary. “It’s a great opportunity for the city to drive economic growth.” Ollivant says the technology at the Cowlitz wastewater treatment plant is “very advanced” and at a level that is “much higher than most municipalities have.“It creates a hospitality option that we don’t have here in north Clark County,” said Jennifer Lindsay, mayor of nearby Ridgefield. Using membrane technology, the plant essentially takes wastewater back to drinking water standards before injecting the clean water 120 feet into the ground via a Class V injection well, where the water will pass through even more filtration before entering the groundwater system. Parametrix has designed similar projects throughout Washington, including the Nisqually Indian Tribe’s environmentally conscious, “zero waste” plant, which Cowlitz Indian Tribe Chairman Bill Iyall says is the “sister project” to the Cowlitz tribe’s water reclamation facility. Michael Ollivant, a project design and consulting engineer with Parametrix, Inc., the company designing the water reclamation plant, said earlier this year that the new wastewater treatment plant is “a very robust system” that exceeds the minimum requirement for the Environmental Protection Agency’s wastewater permitting process. Eventually, the plant will serve a hotel and convention center - both part of the ilani casino-resort project - and the Cowlitz Indian Tribe’s new headquarters. Once complete, the water reclamation plant will be able to treat between 70,000 and 100,000 gallons of wastewater per day and serve the ilani casino-resort, which is expected to open in April of 2017.

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