{"id":120258,"date":"2019-11-20T10:44:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T18:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=120258"},"modified":"2019-11-20T12:35:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T20:35:55","slug":"mount-airy-mini-casino-effort-rebuffed-by-pennsylvania-regulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/mount-airy-mini-casino-effort-rebuffed-by-pennsylvania-regulators\/","title":{"rendered":"No Dice: Mount Airy Mini Casino Plan Rejected by Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mount Airy Casino Resort’s plan to open a Category 4 \u201cmini-casino\u201d in Beaver County was rebuffed by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Mount Airy Casino Resort won’t be able to open a mini-casino in Beaver County, Penn. after regulators rebuffed the idea. (Image: Forbes)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Members of the PGCB said that the effort was turned back because Mount Airy couldn’t procure adequate funding for the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very disappointed that Mount Airy Casino Resort will not be moving forward with our proposed Category 4 casino in Beaver County,\u201d said the property’s COO Todd Greenberg in a statement released earlier today.<\/p>\n

The Keystone State’s Gaming Expansion Act 42 of 2017 provided for the addition of the so-called mini-casinos.<\/p>\n

A Category 4 facility may have between 300 and 750 slot machines, along with a maximum of 30 table games at opening with the capability of adding an additional 10 table games after its first year of operation,\u201d according to the PGCB.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Data from the gaming board indicates Mount Airy was awarded a license in July for a satellite gaming property in Big Beaver Borough, Beaver County, with a winning bid of $21.18 million.<\/p>\n

Competition Concerns<\/h2>\n

As is the case with some other Mid-Atlantic gaming hubs<\/a>, increasing nearby competition played a role in the demise of Mount Airy’s Big Beaver ambitions. The town is located about an hour from downtown Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

The Steel City, Pennsylvania’s second-largest metropolitan area, is home to the Rivers Casino and is close to several other gaming properties. Last month, Rivers posted revenue of $32 million, a 13.74 percent jump on a year-over-year basis, placing it third among Pennsylvania’s 12 land-based gaming venues, according to PGCB data.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mount Airy, located near the Poconos, a popular tourist destination, notched October turnover of almost $16.1 million, a 5.91 percent year-over-year increase. October was the first full month for that venue’s newly minted sports betting app, which generated a handle of $10.4 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Underscoring the increasingly competitive gaming landscape in Pennsylvania, the PGCB held a mini-casino auction in early September in which no bidder emerged<\/a> with the minimum $7.5 million qualifying offer, meaning the state will put a hold on issuing Category 4 licenses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Penn National Gaming, the oldest licensed gaming operator in the state, previously balked at the mini-casino idea, saying those proposals unfairly protected gaming properties in Philadelphia while introducing unneeded competition to venues in other parts of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

New Plans<\/h2>\n

Local politicians in Big Beaver were dismayed by the PGCB decision, saying that Mount Airy controlled land near Interstate 376 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike for more than a year, with no development taking place.<\/p>\n

Some are optimistic that although the mini-casino plan was denied, other developers will have an interest in the land.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully, this has opened eyes for that corridor,\u201d said Daniel Camp, chairman of the Beaver County Board of Commissioners in an interview with The Times<\/i>. \u201cNow people know there\u2019s interest in development there, and we should see some action taking place there in the coming months or year.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mount Airy Casino Resort’s plan to open a Category 4 \u201cmini-casino\u201d in Beaver County was rebuffed by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) Wednesday. Members of the PGCB said that the effort was turned back because Mount Airy couldn’t procure adequate funding for the project. \u201cWe are very disappointed that Mount Airy Casino Resort will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":120260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,13592],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMount Airy Mini Casino Effort Rebuffed by Pennsylvania Regulators<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mount Airy Casino Resort wanted to build a satellite gaming property in Beaver County, but Pennsylvania regulators said no.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mount Airy Mini Casino Effort Rebuffed by Pennsylvania Regulators\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mount Airy Casino Resort wanted to build a satellite gaming property in Beaver County, but Pennsylvania regulators said no.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/mount-airy-mini-casino-effort-rebuffed-by-pennsylvania-regulators\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Casino.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-11-20T18:44:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-11-20T20:35:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/MA.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"868\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Todd Shriber\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@etfgodfather\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Todd Shriber\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/mount-airy-mini-casino-effort-rebuffed-by-pennsylvania-regulators\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/mount-airy-mini-casino-effort-rebuffed-by-pennsylvania-regulators\/\",\"name\":\"Mount Airy Mini Casino Effort Rebuffed by Pennsylvania Regulators\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/mount-airy-mini-casino-effort-rebuffed-by-pennsylvania-regulators\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/mount-airy-mini-casino-effort-rebuffed-by-pennsylvania-regulators\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/MA.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-20T18:44:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-11-20T20:35:55+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/f4cecf70a5032bc4e60eb73fc86d4a85\"},\"description\":\"Mount Airy Casino Resort wanted to build a satellite gaming property in Beaver County, but Pennsylvania regulators said no.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/mount-airy-mini-casino-effort-rebuffed-by-pennsylvania-regulators\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/mount-airy-mini-casino-effort-rebuffed-by-pennsylvania-regulators\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/mount-airy-mini-casino-effort-rebuffed-by-pennsylvania-regulators\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/MA.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/MA.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":868,\"caption\":\"Mount Airy Casino Resort won't be able to open a mini-casino in Beaver County, Penn. after regulators rebuffed the idea. 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