State
receives 17 Category 2 casino applications
By Richard D. L. Fulton
News Editor
HARRISBURG,
Pa. – The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has begun
the review process of 17 Category 2 casino applications received
by the Dec. 28 filing deadline, but no date has yet been set
for a final selection.
The available
Category 2 (casinos not associated with a horse track) include
two in Philadelphia and one in Pittsburgh and two “wild
card” licenses which can be at any proposed location.
The Crossroads
Gaming Resort & Spa (formerly the Gettysburg Casino and
Spa), proposed on Route 30 near the U.S. 15 interchange by
Chance Enterprises, is vying for one of the three “wild
card” licenses.
Named
as “associated applicants” in Crossroad’s
application were: Edgar Anthony Sabounghi, Peter J. Ressler,
Sr., Chance Enterprises, Inc., Heather Rebecca Kutz, Alan
Ray Hassman, Elizabeth Anne Eelkema, MS Gaming Companies Holdings,
Inc., Phillip Gary Wienken, David Michael LeVan, Michael A.
Serluco, Crossroads Gaming Resort & Spa, L.P., James P.
Quillen, Jr., Andrew Alfred Brenner, Michael Christopher Garrity,
Crossroads GP, Inc. and Barbara B. Enrico.
The non-Philadelphia,
non-Pittsburgh applicants against which Crossroads will be
vying include:
- Tropicana
Pennsylvania, LLC (Proposed location Allentown);
- Sands Bethworks Gaming LLC (Proposed location Bethlehem);
- Pennsylvania Gaming Group, LLP (Proposed location Lancaster);
- Boyd Pennsylvania Partners, LP (Proposed location Limerick);
- Mount Airy #1, LLC (Proposed location Monroe County);
- Pocono Manor Investors, LP (Proposed location Monroe County);
- Trum Construction Company (Proposed location Western Pennsylvania).
In addition
to the applications, the gaming board also received more than
600 boxes of support materials sent in as part of the various
submissions.
PGCB
Spokesman Nick Hays told The Dispatch that the Category
1 casinos would be approved “no sooner than this summer.”
