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Jim RosicaJuly 9, 2018

The $1.5 billion expansion underway at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood celebrated a milestone Monday with a “topping out” of its 450-foot high guitar-shaped tower. That is, the final steel beam was ceremonially hoisted and set atop the tower. It will bring 638 new guest rooms and suites. “The beam itself was transported to […]

Jim RosicaApril 18, 2018

It’s another happy day at Hard Rock. Gov. Rick Scott Wednesday announced an agreement between the state and the Seminole Tribe of Florida that “extends the Tribe’s current commitment to make (gambling) revenue sharing payments to the state through May 2019.” The tribe operates Hard Rock-branded and other casinos in Florida, including the flagship Hard […]

Jim RosicaMay 16, 2017

The Seminole Tribe of Florida, which recently bought the former Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, is expanding its Hard Rock gambling and entertainment brand to Canada. A Tribe spokesman on Tuesday said that the Seminoles had won a bidding process to open a Hard Rock Casino in Ottawa, the nation’s capital. The deal with the Ontario […]

Associated PressApril 5, 2017

Donald Trump, domes and minarets are out. Rock ‘n’ roll and guitars — lots of guitars — are in as the Hard Rock chain re-does Atlantic City’s former Trump Taj Mahal casino. The company owned by Florida’s Seminole Indian tribe on Wednesday unveiled its $375 million plan for the shuttered casino resort, which it bought […]

Associated PressApril 3, 2017

It’s official: Atlantic City‘s former Trump Taj Mahal casino now belongs to Hard Rock International. The sale of the shuttered casino opened in 1990 by President Donald Trump was finalized Friday. The Florida-based Hard Rock, which manages gambling and resort operations for the Seminole Indian tribe, bought the casino March 1 from billionaire investor Carl […]

Associated PressMarch 3, 2017

The Seminole Tribe of Florida, now co-owner of Atlantic City’s Trump Taj Mahal casino, also wants to build a $1 billion casino in northern New Jersey just outside New York City. Jim Allen, CEO of Seminole Tribe-controlled Hard Rock International, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the company remains committed to its plan to build a casino […]

Jim RosicaMarch 1, 2017

The Seminole Tribe of Florida is expanding its gambling holdings to the Garden State. Hard Rock International, which the Tribe controls, Wednesday announced it had bought the shuttered Trump Taj Mahal casino on Atlantic City’s famed boardwalk from billionaire Carl Icahn. The deal includes two New Jersey investors. The sale comes four months after Icahn closed it amid […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 11, 2015

The well-publicized closings of four casinos and corresponding loss of some 8,000 jobs in Atlantic City in 2014 – with the future of the nearly 3,000-employee Trump Taj Mahal also highly uncertain as we entered the New Year – has stirred renewed debate about the years-long fight to prevent Malaysian and Las Vegas gambling conglomerates […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 11, 2015

The well-publicized closings of four casinos and corresponding loss of some 8,000 jobs in Atlantic City in 2014 – with the future of the nearly 3,000-employee Trump Taj Mahal also highly uncertain as we entered the New Year – has stirred renewed debate about the years-long fight to prevent Malaysian and Las Vegas gambling conglomerates […]

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Topped out: Hard Rock Hollywood hoists final guitar tower girder

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Guitars oust minarets as Hard Rock redoes Taj Mahal casino

Sale of ex-Trump Taj Mahal casino to Hard Rock is finalized

Seminole Tribe also wants casino near NYC

Seminole Tribe buys former Trump Taj Mahal casino in NJ

Carol Dover: Megacasinos would cannibalize local businesses

Carol Dover: Megacasinos would cannibalize local businesses