![]() The tribe, which now has 4,263 members, started in the early 1980s by building a 20,000-square-foot metal-sided warehouse for bingo games on its Tampa reservation, then a small village with a softball diamond near Interstate 4. Along the way, the Tampa casino and hotel added 2,000 permanent jobs, bringing its total payroll up to about 4,800 positions. The Tampa expansion took 2½ years to complete and created 2,000 construction jobs. Alone among casino companies, Allen said, Hard Rock’s debt is rated investment-grade by the three leading credit rating agencies. From a profitability standpoint, the Tampa casino is the most successful casino in North America, Allen said, and ranks fourth or fifth in the world. ![]() Hard Rock has more than 45,000 employees and 254 properties, many of them cafes and stores, along with what will soon be a dozen casinos, in 75 countries. ![]() Today the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa is the flagship of Hard Rock International, generating $1 billion a year in revenue for a corporation with total revenues of nearly $6 billion annually, said Jim Allen, chairman of Hard Rock International and president of Seminole Gaming. “We started off with a chickee and one alligator in a pen,” Seminole Tribe vice chairman Mitchell Cypress said, “and look where we’re at.” ![]()
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