Picture This: Construction of the future Hard Rock Casino Rockford

April 19, 2023|By Kevin Haas|In 815 News, Rockford, Trending, Business, Photo Gallery
By Kevin Haas
Rock River Current
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ROCKFORD — The future Hard Rock Casino near East State Street and Interstate 90 has started to take shape.

Ringland-Johnson Construction, which is managing the project, broke ground in September, and structural steel began to go vertical about two weeks ago.

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On Tuesday, construction teams allowed members of the media on site to take a look at the progress.

Here’s a gallery of images of that work:

An employee of Area Erectors works Tuesday, April 18, 2023, on the structural steel for the future Hard Rock Casino Rockford. (Photo by Kevin Haas/Rock River Current)
An Area Erectors employee bolts a beam to a column on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at the future Hard Rock Casino Rockford. (Photo by Kevin Haas/Rock River Current)
An Area Erectors employee welds a beam in place on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at the future Hard Rock Casino Rockford. (Photo by Kevin Haas/Rock River Current)
Brent Johnson, president of Ringland-Johnson Construction, walks through the future Hard Rock Casino site on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, in Rockford. (Photo by Kevin Haas/Rock River Current)
Area Erectors works Tuesday, April 18, 2023, on the future Hard Rock Casino site in Rockford. (Photo by Kevin Haas/Rock River Current)
An Area Erectors employee signals to crane operators on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, as they set a beam in place for the future Hard Rock Casino in Rockford. (Photo by Kevin Haas/Rock River Current)
An Area Erectors employee welds a beam in place on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at the future Hard Rock Casino Rockford. (Photo by Kevin Haas/Rock River Current)
An employee of Area Erectors works Tuesday, April 18, 2023, on the structural steel for the future Hard Rock Casino Rockford. (Photo by Kevin Haas/Rock River Current)
An Area Erectors employee walks across a steel beam on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at the future Hard Rock Casino Rockford under construction near East State Street and Interstate 90. (Photo by Kevin Haas/Rock River Current)
Brent Johnson, president of Ringland-Johnson Construction, looks over the construction site on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at the future Hard Rock Casino Rockford. Ringland-Johnson is managing the construction project. (Photo by Kevin Haas/Rock River Current)
Area Erectors works Tuesday, April 18, 2023, on the future Hard Rock Casino site in Rockford. (Photo by Kevin Haas/Rock River Current)
Area Erectors works Tuesday, April 18, 2023, on the future Hard Rock Casino site in Rockford. (Photo by Kevin Haas/Rock River Current)
Ringland-Johnson Construction President Brent Johnson, Jake Scott of the Naperville OHSA office and Erik Kambarian of the Illinois Department of Labor sign a worksite safety partnership for the Hard Rock Casino construction project on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at the Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council of Carpenters Apprenticeship & Training Center. (Photo by Kevin Haas/Rock River Current)
Al Jotautas, safety director for the Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council, Brent Johnson of Ringland-Johnson Construction and Jake Scott of the the Naperville OSHA and Erik Kambarian, chief of the state Department of Labor’s division of Occupational Safety and Health, sign a workplace safety partnership on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council of Carpenters Apprenticeship & Training Center. (Photo by Kevin Haas/Rock River Current)
Workers with Area Erectors set a steel beam in place on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at the future Hard Rock Casino Rockford. (Photo by Kevin Haas/Rock River Current)
A safety orientation training sticker that reads “don’t gamble on safety” is displayed on Brent Johnson’s hardhat on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at the Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council of Carpenters Apprenticeship & Training Center. (Photo by Kevin Haas/Rock River Current)
Workers from Area Erectors prepare to raise structural steel on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at the future Hard Rock Rockford casino. (Photo by Kevin Haas/Rock River Current)
Workers from Area Erectors put structural steel in place on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at the future Hard Rock Casino near East State Street and Lyford Road in Rockford. (Photo by Kevin Haas/Rock River Current)

This photo gallery is by Kevin Haas. Email him at khaas@rockrivercurrent.com or follow him on Twitter at @KevinMHaas or Instagram @thekevinhaas