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David Nejelski

Sep 28, 2026

2:25
nowadays when I say, how long have you
2:26
been there? And I say, more than three decades.
2:30
It's a bit of an anomaly.
2:31
But truth be told, when I got out of school the market was down a bit and it was kind of difficult to get a job and once this opportunity opened up the firm was called balden corporation at the time and they were doing a project for donald trump actually for the for the downtown downtown gaming license that they were going after and um you know when i when i first got on board i did your typical intern things picked up picked up details, did bathroom layouts or what have you.
3:08
But very early on was tasked with doing some conceptual design sketches for a project that was going out the door.
3:15
It was for a riverboat casino project down in Biloxi, Mississippi.
3:19
And when my hand sketching ability was noted by the then director of design, he's like, well, he's mine now.

8 MINS LATER

11:24
do the tribes sometimes lean more in the direction of let's create that kind of conceptual theme and not worry as much about the cultural heritage? Or is it really quite a bit more about leaning into that cultural heritage?

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