Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation on Wednesday suspended its expansion plans for Cache Creek Casino Resort due to the economy.

The tribe had been working to get approval for an environmental document for a 215,000-square-foot addition, which would increase its gaming area by 22 percent. The expansion was to include a restaurant, six-story parking garage and a 52,440-square-foot conference and events center, but no additional hotel rooms.

Following an impasse with Yolo County, the tribe last year dropped a $300 million expansion plan that included more than 467 hotel rooms. The tribe’s existing hotel has 200 rooms.

“The decision to suspend work on the event center project is certainly a difficult one, but we believe this is the prudent course amidst the ongoing concerns about the short and long-term economic environment in our region and across the U.S.,” said a prepared statement from the Yocha Dehe Tribal Council.

The tribe is the county’s second-largest employer with 2,400 employees, trailing only the University of California Davis.