Floor-to-ceiling windows, which set the ilani apart from most casinos by connecting the gaming floor and surrounding restaurants and shops with the outside world, illuminate the cavernous gaming area, which will, only six months from today, be filled with 2,500 slot machines and 80 gaming tables. Tiles adorn walls inside several partially finished bathrooms. A walk through the casino-resort construction site shows just how far builders have come since the tribe began site preparations in September 2015.