The 5-storey, 192-room River Rock Hotel is perched above a 700-ft. long, 7-storey, 1520 car parkade with its entrance and retail uses along the street level sidewalk.  It is connected to the River Rock Casino Resort to the north with a “move-a-lator” bridge across River Road.  To the south there is another bridge, connected to the Canada Line Skytrain station and transit hub.

The parkade opened in August 2009 coinciding with the completion of the Canada Line. It serves the park and ride patrons during the day and the casino/resort patrons on evenings and weekends.

The architectural design recognizes the emergence of a new entertainment precinct. The massing of the parkade is broken up by graphic screens, glazed stairs, trellises and canopies. The design intention of the hotel is to defer to the original Casino Resort while providing a variation on the theme, in what will be perceived as a family of thematically related buildings.