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Seminole Tribe claims one of world's largest casinos in expansion

Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Filed Under: Openings and Closings

The Seminole Tribe of Florida unveiled a $75 million expansion at one of its casinos, making it the sixth-largest gaming facility in the world.

The tribe added 32,000 square-feet to the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Tampa, for total gaming space of 190,000 square-feet. The facility now boasts more than 5,000 slot machines, 110 table games, 50 poker tables and a parking garage with over 5,000 spaces.

"We never say we're done expanding," Doug Hoppe, the vice president of sales and marketing, told The Tampa Tribune.

The tribe is hiring about 400 people for the expansion, bringing the total number of employees to more than 3,500.

Get the Story:
Expansion puts Seminole Hard Rock Casino in top tier of gaming halls (The St. Petersburg Times 7/3)
Casino unveils $75M expansion (The Tampa Tribune 7/3)
Tampa Seminole Hard Rock now world's sixth largest casino (WTSP 7/2)

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