15 of last year, now employs some 1,600 workers with hundreds of others anticipated to join the rolls once the casino expands. The Wilton Rancheria and partners Las Vegas-based Boyd Gaming broke ground on the $400 million, 100,000-square-foot casino complex in March 2021. “It’s a way to get our way of life back,” Tarango said Thursday in an interview with The Sacramento Bee.
Tarango looked on with pride at what’s been built and his Wilton Rancheria tribe’s long journey to get to this point.