12-03-2025
What will the next decade bring? Redding Rancheria deciding what the future holds
The Redding Rancheria might be best known in the region for its role as the operator of the Win-River Resort & Casino.
Over the last several years, the Native American tribe has increasingly become more involved in the region's health care delivery system and political scene. And it has prevailed in a long held and sometimes controversial bid to relocate its existing casino to a property along the Sacramento River just south of Redding, where a hotel, gambling and entertainment complex is now planned.
Opponents in 2020 tried unsuccessfully to block the casino development in the area known as Strawberry Fields.
In February, other opponents filed a lawsuit demanding that the Shasta County Board of Supervisors set aside/and or rescind its decision last year to approve a 30-year contract for the county to provide fire, law enforcement, traffic control and road maintenance services once the complex is built. As of March 11, a groundbreaking date had not been set.
Filed by California Land Stewardship Council, the lawsuit says the contract approved by the board was illegal and its financial terms "constitute waste of public funds."
Redding Rancheria CEO Tracy Edwards said at the time that the group's lawsuit is a "political stunt" and a "possibly misguided attempt to delay our casino relocation project." Most of the allegations in the lawsuit, Edwards said, are "demonstrably false."
The Rancheria intends to build a 69,541-square-foot casino, nine-story, 250-room hotel, restaurants, a conference center, an event center, convention center and a 132,000-square-foot regional retail center on a portion of the 232 acres of undeveloped land the tribe owns near the Costco store that opened in late 2022.
Win-River's current hotel has 84 rooms, while its casino covers about 60,000 square feet on Highway 273 between Clear Creek and Canyon roads.
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What will the next decade bring?
That's the topic to be explored as the Native American tribe this week holds its Soaring Forward Strategic Planning Conference on Wednesday and Thursday at Win-River.
Redding Rancheria approved to build at Strawberry Fields off Interstate 5
About 150 people, including tribal leadership, members of the tribe and invited community leaders will attend the planning event, which is designed to help guide the Redding Rancheria's focus during the next 10 years.
The strategy-setting session was last held in 2014, with the results published in 2015.
Said Redding Rancheria COO Stacey Carmen via email: "There are many efforts/programs that we see today, the biggest being the groundbreaking of our Health Village on March 17."
The Redding Rancheria intends for its upcoming $232 million Tribal Health Village in Shasta County to be a place where people can see their cardiologist or dermatologist, get an acupuncture treatment, learn to cook healthy meals, work out in the pool or treat themselves to a spa day.
The 185,000-square-foot complex could open in about two years, said Glen Hayward, executive director of Redding Rancheria Tribal Health Systems.
This week's goal-setting session, Carmen said, "is one of many that will occur and the end result will be our published Strategic Plan for 2025-2035."
Michele Chandler covers public safety, dining and whatever else comes up for the Redding Record Searchlight/USA Today Network. Accepts story tips at 530-338-7753 and at mrchandler@ Please support our entire newsroom's commitment to public service journalism by subscribing today.
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