Slime Plant to become Deadwood Mountain Grand

The Slime Plant, a historic building in Deadwood, SD, is being restored, remodeled, and renovated into the Deadwood Mountain Grand Event Center and Casino. The $43 million project will ultimately feature a 100-room hotel, a creekside restaurant, an indoor-outdoor bar with a view of the downtown historic district, a multi-level parking structure, and a 2500-seat entertainment complex. The developers hope to open in July 2011.

This video shows the work that has been completed to date, including demolishing the previous interior offices, digging out the mountainside in the back to make room for the hotel, digging out the interior floor down one story to accommodate the casino, and removing the outside siding to prepare for a new exterior.

Investors in the project include Ken Alphin, better known as Big Kenny of country supergroup Big & Rich.

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Travel & Events

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• Deadwood
• historic
• building
• resort
• casino
• hotel
• restaurant
• entertainment
• event
• center

[d096i9]

Why do they call it the slime plant?

[realdeadwoodpodcast]

According to Wikipedia, slimes are the materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the worthless fraction of an ore, in this case gold ore from the Homestake Mine in nearby Lead, SD (leed -- about 3 miles). The slime was a mixture of crushed gold-bearing rock and various liquids and chemicals. This was a plant where gold was extracted from the slime.

[realdeadwoodpodcast]

@free2b1956 I'll be playing there in the bar on July 1 & 2.

[free2b1956]

@ZeppoBrothers we are going to be ready to rock and roll on july 1 on july 8 the concerts begin !

[ZeppoBrothers]

The Slime Plant now being turned into the $40 million Deadwood Mountain Grand Hotel & Casino in the center of town? Anyone know the owner, or status of the project?