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Tribal-Run Video Gaming Center in Alabama Expected to Generate $10 million

``The city sued to block the 165-seat center. But whether for it or against it, local leaders now admit that the Riverside Entertainment Center has boosted the area economy since opening Nov. 24.

```Our sales have been up every month since it opened,' Trupp said. `I definitely feel that it is having a positive effect on business.'

``Daily traffic has visibly increased along U.S. 231 South. More people have jobs. And there's a regular influx of out-of-towners. Business is indeed booming.

```I went there a couple of times, but it was so swamped that I couldn't get in,' Brenda Kelley, a Wetumpka resident, said.

``...Tribal Chairman Eddie Tullis of Atmore said the center, which has cash-winning machines and progressive cash jackpots as high as $60,000, will generate about $10 million in revenue this year.

``Tullis said he employs 38 people. The addition of table bingo soon will mean hiring 12 more. Tullis anticipates that 60 people will work at the facility by the end of the year, earning $7 to $12.50 an hour..."

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