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Bill Hughes, who's been Murphy's mayor since and has served on the City Council since , expects the new casino "is going to create a tremendous amount of traffic, but we hope that can be handled. The new hotel in Murphy won't have a restaurant or suites, Lambert said, but it does have 28 deluxe corner rooms that are larger than the standard room. The tribe's Cherokee casino has been boon there, according to a June study commissioned by tribe. Contact staff writer Tim Omarzu at tomarzu timesfreepress. To get to the new casino, Chattanoogans will have to navigate some two-lane sections of Highway 64, and Atlanta drivers will have two lanes for a section of Highway Table games will include blackjack, 21 plus three, three-card poker, Mississippi stud, baccarat and mini-baccarat, Lambert said. Blackmon said the tribe expects between 1 million and 1. The new casino will provide about jobs, Lambert said. The tribe could build another North Carolina casino, if it choose to. Casino officials expect that people from those areas still will drive to Cherokee for longer stays at the resort, which is a gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Tribal officials declined to say how much annual gaming revenue it expects from the Murphy casino. Murphy, a city with a population in the census of 1, residents, is the county seat of Cherokee County, N. Casino gambling is about to move closer to Chattanooga.{/INSERTKEYS}{/PARAGRAPH} {PARAGRAPH}{INSERTKEYS}The new casino's hotel is about a quarter the size of the 1,room resort in Cherokee, and the Murphy casino won't have the amenities that have led some to call the Cherokee casino a "mini Las Vegas," such as a spa, conference center or events center that features such entertainers as Jay Leno, the Doobie Brothers and Tony Bennett. The casino is a mile outside of city limits. But the plan is get day-trippers from Chattanooga, Knoxville and Atlanta. The report also found that the casino had positive social impacts for the tribe; it lifted tribal members out of poverty, improved life expectancy and led to more students enrolling in community college. He said the casino will create steady jobs with benefits — mostly for support workers such as housekeepers, landscapers, plumbers and electricians — that will complement jobs provided by the city's other big employers: Snap-on Tools, Moog Components Group and MGM Brakes. In March of last year, the tribe broke ground on a new, three-story, ,square-foot hospital to replace an old, one-story hospital about half that size.