By Maria Hickey, KWMU
St. Louis, MO. – Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. has chosen its general contractor for the River City casino project in Lemay in south St. Louis County.
The contractor is a joint venture partnership of W.G. Yates & Sons Construction out of Mississippi and St. Louis-based Paric
Pinnacle spokesman Mack Bradley says the River City Casino is expected to open in about 18 months.
He says the construction will be done completely with union labor.
"We're looking at roughly 600 union construction jobs," he said. "That number may fluctuate a little bit higher. It may actually go up."
Bradley says the casino will provide more than 1,000 permanent jobs once it opens.
The maximum cost of the construction is set at $149 million. The total project is expected to cost $375 million.