The three new food and beverage concepts are a gourmet coffee cafe, a 130-seat pan-Asian restaurant with a full bar and indoor-outdoor seating, and a signature 250-seat restaurant with communal areas, a lounge and a cooking display area. In an interview before the ceremony, McCartney said the new pool area will be a respite for adults who are registered guests at any of the hotel towers, while children will be welcome at the existing pool. The chairman was coy on the project’s specifics, admitting that he was withholding them, but he promised those gathered for the occasion that “you’ll be awed and impressed.” “Who would have thought in 2011, (when) we had a dream of building our first hotel tower, who would have thought that today, in 2017, we would be gathered together once more for our third topping off ceremony,” Welch said. Robert Welch, Jr., Viejas Tribal Council chairman, then raised a glass of sparkling wine to toast the milestone. At the topping off, a Swinerton Builders crane slowly lifted the beam to the hotel’s top floor, with its arrival punctuated by the explosion of fireworks.
