照片：特里·夏皮罗（Terry Shapiro）

Photo: Hensel Phelps Construction Co.

Excavation for the structure required the blasting and removal of 860,000 cu yd of rock and took nearly 18 months to complete. Excavated rock was recycled as backfill within the excavation and as base material for parking areas.

照片：特里·夏皮罗（Terry Shapiro）

The swimming pool and hot tubs are located on an open-air, heated patio on the hotel’s roof. The pool level features a moveable glass wall to enclose the pool during winter months.

Plans conceived by Windsor Woodmont before the purchase called for an expansion that meshed perfectly with Ameristar’s vision for a Las Vegas-style destination resort and hotel, and once the deal closed, Ameristar moved forward.

Architects PGAV of Kansas City and WATG of Irvine, Calif., along with contractor Hensel Phelps Construction Co. of Greeley, Colo., were brought in to begin an $80-million renovation. A second-story addition enlarged the casino to 55,000 sq ft, while four levels built atop the adjoining parking garage increased capacity to 1,550 vehicles. The original six-story garage was engineered to go higher.

为该项目带来连续性的是Ameristar Project Project校长杰克·内文（Jack Nevin），他是该团队的前成员，他们建立了第一个赌场。

“AGC (of Colorado) gave us the ACE Award for innovation and constructability on the garage,” Nevin says. In the first of a series of creative solutions, a track-mounted crane was devised to run the length of the garage with one crane handing off materials to a second.

内文说：“这使我们能够保持车库的开放，并尊重我们在整个建筑过程中保持全面运作的承诺。”“唯一的选择是在车库入口处找到常规起重机，这是不可接受的。那将意味着旷日持久的闭合。”

Meanwhile, plans for the hotel were expanded from 200 rooms to a 34-story, luxury high-rise and spa with 536 rooms costing $236 million.

“The mountain-lodge-style hotel incorporates generous amounts of stone, wood paneling and beams to create a warm, inviting ambiance,” says Ameristar Sales Manager Rollie Fullwood. Amenities include a rooftop pool, fire pits and Jacuzzi tubs; full-service spa and a fitness facility; 15,000 sq ft of conference rooms; and an elegant 7,000-sq-ft porte cochere.

“Our complement of team members has increased from under 500 to nearly 900,” Fullwood says. “That, plus the construction jobs, numbering approximately 850 at peak activity, gave a significant boost to the local economy.”

该酒店于2006年夏季破土动工，并于10月向客人开放。

岩石滑梯

Matt McCaulley, Hensel Phelps’s project manager, says the most daunting aspect of the project was the blasting. “At its deepest, the excavation went down 80 ft,” he adds.

The protracted blasting operation took nearly 18 months to complete. Begun in August 2006 and completed at the end of 2007, the work included removal of 30,000 cu yd of rubble, with a four-month hiatus during which a new fire-pump station was built.

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