Pennsylvania News - Page 99

News Brief: After more than 20 years as an architect who crafted casinos and resorts from Mexico to Michigan, Davis, a Dallas native, is the top designer on a project much closer to his old stomping grounds: Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs.

News Brief: To speed the process of licensing casino operators and slot machine manufacturers, Pennsylvania gaming regulators will hire up to three outside financial consulting firms, including one based in Pittsburgh.

A casino could be located in some city neighborhoods where zoning currently prohibits such construction under a preliminary city plan announced this week.

News Brief: Northampton County Council took a position Thursday against gambling. In a 5-3-1 vote, council said it does not believe gambling would be an appropriate part of the county's future.

Robert Soper, CEO of Downs Racing will unveil plans for the proposed gaming and entertainment facility to be constructed on the existing grounds of Pocono Downs racetrack.

News Brief: Two gaming board members indicated to a Pennsylvania House committee yesterday that some of the new racetrack/casinos could be ready for action by late 2006.

A developer said he has a contract with the Pocono Manor resort to build a $1.5 billion casino complex around the historic hotel near interstates 80 and 380.

News Brief: Magna Entertainment, the Canadian horse racing company that had flirted with seeking a thoroughbred license in Pennsylvania for more than a year and a half, is now officially a scratch.

Alan Krigman discusses the Pennsylvania bill passed to legalize slot parlors.

News Brief: The Pennsylvania House Tourism and Recreational Development Committee met to discuss a bill that would lift a cap on the amount a host municipality will get from slots.

News Brief: The sheer size of the proposed venue has stunned members of the Pittsburgh Gaming Task Force, the volunteer group put together by Mayor Tom Murphy to study the impact of the casino.

News Brief: Whether a slots parlor in Gettysburg would be helpful to tourism marketers seems to be largely dependent on what the state does with its share of the revenue.

News Brief: Bethlehem City Council will not vote tonight on a law to ban gambling on the former Bethlehem Steel site, council President Michael Schweder said in a brief interview Monday.

News Brief: Proponents say a casino would create 800 full-time jobs, pump millions of dollars into the local economy and complement Gettysburg's historic battlefield, museums, shops and restaurants.

News Brief: The owners of the Pittsburgh Penguins have been talking to gambling companies about forming a partnership to bolster their bid for the city's only slot machine casino license, majority owner Mario Lemieux said Thursday.

News Brief: Rejecting a constitutional challenge that threatened to undo what is expected to become a $3 billion industry, Pennsylvania's highest court Wednesday upheld the Gaming Act, the state's 11-month-old slot-machine gambling law.

Governor Edward G. Rendell's Chief of Staff responds to the PA Supreme Court ruling in Pennsylvanians Against Gambling Expansion Fund v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

News Brief: Las Vegas Sands Corp would seek to integrate Bethlehem’s historically significant Steel buildings and awe-evoking equipment into the site's design, according to President William P. Weidner.

Senator Majority Whip Jeffrey E. Piccola has unveiled Senate Bill 765, legislation that would close a loophole in the state's gaming law.

News Brief: The casino proposed for Gettysburg is one of a number of pitched battles being fought between developers and preservationists over Civil War sites heavy with history.