New Osage Casino In Tulsa Oklahoma

Photo caption: The second hotel tower for the Tulsa-based Osage Casinos is nearly finished on Dec. 11, 2020. CODY HAMMER/Osage News

There’s a new YouTube Music web player for desktop! No thanks Check it out. Find out why Close. T I 24s Osage Casino Tulsa Oklahoma - Duration: 1:47. Oklahoma Casino Takes Precautions To Prevent The Spread Of COVID-19 News On 6 A local casino is taking some extra steps to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. The Osage Nation announced they are. Currently, Osage Casinos’ Tulsa location is the only casino in the state with an in-house brewery. Bighorse said they will be choosing a new name, brand and menu that will be announced soon. The brewery opened in 2018 and featured a bar and a 20-barrel brewhouse capable of brewing four types of beer.

Osage Casinos will begin 2021 with a newly branded in-house brewery and a new hotel tower.

“We are going to bring the brewery in house and create our own brand,” said Osage Casinos CEO Byron Bighorse. “However, we are doing a cost/benefit analysis to ensure this is the direction we want to head. I believe we can manage this internally, but we will need the expertise of a brewmaster and their recipes.”

Bighorse told the Tulsa World in November that many guests of the Tulsa-based hotel and casino did not connect with the brewery brand. They made a decision earlier this year to sever the relationship with the Allen, Texas-based brewer Nine Band Brewing Company.

“I am currently speaking to several members of the Oklahoma brewing community about the future,” he said.

Currently, Osage Casinos’ Tulsa location is the only casino in the state with an in-house brewery. Bighorse said they will be choosing a new name, brand and menu that will be announced soon.

The brewery opened in 2018 and featured a bar and a 20-barrel brewhouse capable of brewing four types of beer. At the time, Bighorse said the brewery was a way to attract a younger demographic to the casino.

Recently, the owner of Nine Band Brewing Company, Keith Ashley, has been in national news after he was arrested in Texas on state homicide and federal charges. Bighorse told the Tulsa Worldthat they were disturbed by Ashley’s arrest and have accelerated the final stages of separation from the company.

Also planned for 2021 is the opening of the new 141-room hotel tower. The new tower is the exact replica of the first hotel tower built in 2017. Bighorse said 66 hotel rooms will be available to customers by Dec. 28, 2020. The rest of the rooms in the new tower will be ready by the first calendar quarter of 2021, he said.

There will be no ribbon-cutting or celebration for the second hotel tower opening due to COVID-19 concerns.

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The $160 million casino is the largest of the seven Osage Casinos and is billed as the Nation’s flagship casino, which brings in the most revenue to fund Osage Nation government services and their casino operations. The project is a 247,000 square foot casino, 75,000 square foot hotel and associated parking garage.

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Wallace Engineering provided civil engineering services for the casino, hotel and parking structure on this 100-acre site with a mile of stream relocation. The casino has 68,000 square feet of gaming space with 16 table games, five poker tables, 1,500 electronic gaming machines, a sports bar and grill, a small cafe and full service brew pub. The hotel includes 141 guest rooms, six suites, a fitness center and resort style pool with a 6,000 square foot outdoor entertainment space. The hotel also houses a 10,000 square foot ballroom and three breakout rooms for conference and conventions, and a 45,000 square foot event space. The new four-level parking garage adds 1,039 spaces bringing the total number of spaces, both surface and structured parking, to 3,381.

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In order to facilitate the construction of the new Osage Casino building, the existing stormwater channel that ran through the site had to be rerouted around the new building footprint. This resulted in 4,735 feet of relocated channel, including two large culverts. The channel dead ends into a detention pond, which was designed to accommodate the 200+ acre drainage area with over 13 acre-feet of volume. Additionally, there were existing wetlands located within the proposed area of development. Portions of the existing wetlands were required to be mitigated and relocated with the remaining wetland areas being preserved.

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