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Forest County Potawatomi Tribe gets ready to open casino hotel


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The hotel at the Potawatomi Hotel & Casino in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Photo from thisisemilyida / Instagram

The day is almost here -- the Forest County Potawatomi Tribe of Wisconsin will open its casino hotel on August 18.

The $97.5 million, 371,000 square-foot hotel at the Potawatomi Hotel & Casino features 381 rooms on 19 floors. It features 12,000 square-feet of meeting space, a 1,900-square-foot patio, a restaurant and a bar.


The living room in the 3,000 square-foot presidential suite at the Potawatomi Hotel & Casino. Photo from Facebook

“The rooms are gorgeous, but it’s the service that sets the place apart,” hotel director Hassan Abdel-Moneim told WISN.

Room rates will range from $150 to $250 a night. The 3,000 square-foot presidential suite can be reserved for $4,000 a night.


A view from the 3,000 square-foot presidential suite at the Potawatomi Hotel & Casino. Photo from Facebook

The hotel was built on non-trust land adjacent to the casino. The tribe will pay property and room taxes in Milwaukee.

The tribe hired 230 full-time and part-time workers for the hotel.

Get the Story:
Potawatomi Hotel & Casino a sure bet to shake up lodging market (The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 8/5)
Photos: Potawatomi set to open new 381-room hotel (The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 8/5)
Hotel adds more meeting space at Potawatomi casino (Milwaukee BizTimes 8/4)
Potawatomi Hotel set to open with local touches (WISN 8/4)
Wanna be a high roller? Make your reservations for the new Potawatomi Hotel (Fox News 8/4)
Just Desserts: Inside the New Poto' Hotel (Milwaukee Magazine 8/4)

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