
“We took the rulebook for a dark, dungeon-like casino and threw it out,” said Santan Mountain Casino general manager Blake Katsnelson.
That is easy to see at the new 160,000-square-foot Santan Mountain Casino on the Gila River Indian Community in Chandler, AZ. Part of the Gila River Resorts & Casinos opened, the casino—which opened this summer—boasts restaurants and bars, a nearly 7,000-square-foot vibrant ballroom, the state’s largest casino sportsbook, and massively innovative technology from Planar.