The city fathers have been trying for decades to get someone to build a convention center downtown  --  they seem convinced the business is there, and they're probably right.   

Esprit comes here every year, even though they have to patch together their venues  --  despite the occasional logging truck, it's a beautiful location for a conference or retreat, we're a hospitable town, and we have an unusual number of restaurants for a place this size.  (I have friends who come over from Victoria just to eat.) 

The tribe is finally giving the city what they've been asking for, and right in the middle of the downtown CBD to maximize pedestrian access to local businesses.  Why would a theme-park approach strike you as preferable to a good hotel?  Which, BTW, looks to have been carefully designed so it won't dwarf the rest of downtown  --  I admire this design.  

Sorry to say it Rik, but you seem to be reacting mostly to the fact that it's "injuns" who are proposing this.