The Seminole Tribe of Florida started work on an expansion project at one of its casinos.
The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Tampa will be seeing a 30,000-square-foot gaming area, a 50-table poker room, a new restaurant, a 750-space parking garage and other amenities, The Tampa Bay Times reported. Plans for a new hotel tower, a music venue, meeting facilities and other changes have been dropped amid a dispute over a new Class III gaming compact, the paper said.
The tribe said it was going to invest $1.8 billion in its gaming enterprise if lawmakers approved the new agreement.
That didn't happen and the tribe and the state are litigating compact issues in federal court.
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Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino begins vastly scaled down expansion in Tampa
(The Tampa Bay Times 6/1)
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