Paragon owned a 40 percent share of the property, with the Alexis First Nation owning the rest. In 2008, Paragon opened the Eagle River Casino and Travel Plaza at the Alexis Whitecourt Indian Reserve in northern Alberta. In September 2006, the company purchased the bankrupt Edgewater Casino, located at the Plaza of Nations in Vancouver, for $43 million. Paragon operated and co-owned the casino until 2014, when the Enoch Cree bought out the company's interests. The $178-million River Cree Resort and Casino opened in October 2006. When those efforts succeeded in 2002, Paragon partnered with the Enoch Cree Nation to develop a casino hotel in Edmonton. Meanwhile, the company worked with First Nations bands in Alberta to lobby for regulations that would allow tribes to open casinos. The Augustine Casino opened in 2002 at a cost of $16 million.

The project drew some attention because the tribe had only one adult member critics questioned the seemliness of developers profiting from a casino that would benefit so few Indians. Later in 2001, Paragon announced a deal to develop a casino near Palm Springs, California for the Augustine Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians.

This plan, too, provoked strong opposition, and was rejected by the city council. In the face of opposition from local officials, the company withdrew the proposal and announced a new plan to build a casino at the Oxnard Factory Outlet with the Greenville Rancheria of Maidu Indians. In 2001, Paragon proposed to develop a casino at the Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard, California on behalf of a yet-to-be-determined tribe. The company began working with American Indian tribes, seeking opportunities to develop tribal casinos. Paragon Gaming was founded in 2000 by cousins Diana Bennett and Scott Menke, who were experienced gaming executives and the daughter and nephew, respectively, of prominent casino owner William Bennett. Paragon Gaming is a gaming company based in Enterprise, Nevada that owns and manages casinos in the United States and formerly in Canada. Gaming company based in Enterprise, Nevada, US

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