Casino project takes step forward

This artist’s rendering highlights how the Shoshone-Paiute resort complex would appear once the combined casino and resort at the border of Elmore and Ada counties opens to the public.

Illustration courtesy of the Shoshone-Paiute tribes

Plans to build a casino complex west of Mountain Home took a step forward as representatives with the Shoshone-Paiute tribes submitted the application paperwork to the U.S. Department of the Interior on Sept. 30.

Located along I-84 where Ada and Elmore counties meet at the South Orchard Access Road, the project seeks to reconnect tribal members to their ancestral homelands and provide them with an important tool for self-reliance and tribal sovereignty, officials said.

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