Turner Construction Co. announced it has been awarded a $120-million contract to manage the construction of Harrah’s Cherokee Hotel Tower III in Cherokee, N.C. The completion of the tower is scheduled for December 2010.

This project is a 21-story, 532-room, 500,000-sq-ft hotel tower that will include 68 suites, 454 guest rooms and a skybridge connecting the facility to the two existing hotel towers.