“We can confidently say we will maintain our four-diamond, four-star standards and guests can expect the hotel rooms to be of the high quality they’ve come to expect at Northern Quest,” Holland said in an email. Julie Holland, director of public relations and communications for the Kalispel Tribal Economic Authority, told Tribal Business News the tribe is still completing the architectural design work and selecting interior finishes and could not provide an accurate cost estimate for the project. The project team also includes Spokane-based Lydig Construction, Seattle-based architecture firm Ankrom Moisan, Coffman Engineers in Spokane, Seattle-based engineering and planning firm Parametrix, Spokane-based MW Engineers, and Portland, Ore.-based hospitality interior design firm The Society. The new wing will connect to the existing hotel tower by a skywalk. The tribe had planned to announce the expansion in March, but the COVID-19 pandemic caused Northern Quest to delay the plans a few months, Pierre said, noting the enterprise is moving forward “with an eye on maintaining our excellent reputation as an entertainment destination in Eastern Washington.” The tribe now expects to break ground on the expansion in March 2021.įor the new 160,000-square-foot wing featuring five connected buildings, the Kalispel Tribe worked with Spokane, Wash.-based Integrus Architecture for a design inspired by Native American fish weirs.

“And while meetings and events business has taken a big hit in the past eight months, we are confident things will bounce back in the coming months and years, returning us to the kind of demand we were seeing in 2019 and early 2020.” “For the past several years, we’ve been running at consistently high occupancy in our hotel,” Pierre said in a statement. General Manager Nick Pierre said Northern Quest continues to “weather the storm” in 2020 as it looks to the future with this expansion project.

The new hotel wing will add 190 rooms to the property, bringing the facility capacity to more than 440 rooms, the tribe announced this week.īased in Airway Heights in eastern Washington, about 8 miles west of Spokane, Northern Quest first opened in 2000. The Kalispel Tribe plans to add significant capacity to its four-diamond hotel as part of an expansion project at the Northern Quest Resort & Casino.

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