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Seminole Hard Rock Seeks to Expand

TAMPA, FL-Plans for a second hotel at the I-4 casino site ride on a state gambling pact.

By Carl Cronan | Updated on February 05, 2009

(Carl Cronan is editor of Real Estate Florida.)

TAMPA, FL-The Seminole Tribe of Florida has raised the stakes in its gambling pact with the state government, unveiling plans to build a hotel at its local site that is four times larger than the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino standing there now. The proposed hotel, with up to 22 stories and 1,000 rooms, would tower above Interstate 4 on the city’s east side.

Tribal leaders advanced their development plans prior to this year’s session of the Florida Legislature, which must consider a deal made last year with Gov. Charlie Crist that has since been opposed by Attorney General Bill McCollum and the state Supreme Court. Some lawmakers are already calling the Tampa hotel expansion an elaborate form of lobbying.

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