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Pechanga Gaming Casino, Temecula, CA
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Bird’s eye view of northwest entry paving of casino entrance.
T
he Pechanga Gaming facility
provided landscape architectural services
tating access, direction and comfort to
began its initial develop-
to the tribe on the gaming facility and
visiting patrons. The numerous walk-
ment south of the City of
adjacent reservation development since
ways and paved areas surrounding the
Temecula in Riverside
1996. The most recent phase of devel-
casino expansion contain colorful
County in 1995. As with other tribal
opment includes a larger casino, food
accents incorporating historic tribal
gaming ventures throughout California,
service and theater expansion and park-
cultural symbols. Accents within the
Pechanga has developed very quickly
ing structure to serve guests.
pavement were created by using inte-
with multiple facility expansions since
The landscape theme surrounding
being established almost 10 years ago.
the recent expansion continues to focus
Wimmer Yamada & Caughey has
on na tive plantings coupled with facili-
Wimmer Yamada & Caughey, Architects
gral color and special templates depicting different cultural symbols.
Shaw & Sons developed the finishing