Work to begin on massive Ho-Chunk Casino parking garage
8 Apr 2025
BELOIT — Work continues to ramp up this month at the Ho-Chunk Casino site on Willowbrook Road as Neenah-based Miron Construction begins work on the massive parking garage.
In March, Miron Construction pulled two building permits for the casino project. One was a $6.6 million permit for the footings and foundation for the future hotel, which won’t be built until after the casino is completed. The other was an $18 million permit for the footings and foundation for the 565,000-square-foot parking garage, which will hold up to 1,500 vehicles.
Kevin Day of Corporate Contractors Inc. said Miron plans to begin work on the support pilings for the parking garage next week. CCI is acting as project manager and owner’s representative on the project.
“The plan is to open the parking structure with the casino,” Day said in an email.
Day said work on the massive project remains on track despite a difficult month in March with snow and wind slowing the work on several occasions.
To give a sense of size of just the parking garage, when complete it will be the second largest building in Beloit behind the 1 million-square-foot Amazon fulfillment center at 1255 Gateway Blvd. The entire Ironworks Campus on Third Street in Beloit is 557,000 square feet. Stainless Tank and Equipment is in the process of moving into its new office and manufacturing building on Shopiere Road in the Town of Turtle. That project on Interstate 90 is “only” 404,000 square feet.
Workers have been doing site work at the casino site since a couple of days after the ground-breaking ceremony on Oct. 25. The construction timeline calls for the casino to be ready in the summer of 2026 and the hotel and conference center in 2027. When complete, the entire project will encompass 1.2 million square feet. Total cost of the project is estimated around $500 million.
Ho-Chunk currently operates six casinos in Wisconsin — Black River Falls, Madison, Nekoosa, Tomah, Wisconsin Dells and Wittenberg. When it opens, Beloit’s casino will be the second largest casino in the state.
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