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Penn National wants to build a casino in Morgantown, Berks County, the heart of Amish country. The Morgantown casino will cost $110 million and contain 750 slot machines and 30 table games. The video gaming terminals, which are similar to slot machines at a casino, are now in operation as of Thursday at 1165 Harrisburg Pike In Middlesex Township near Carlisle; at 3700 Mountain Road in. Reel slot machines commonly have three or five paylines, while video slot machines may have 9, 15, 25, or as many as 243 different paylines. Most video slot machines have a themed game, some of which feature graphics and music based on popular entertainers, motion pictures or TV programs with a bonus round.
Pennsylvania on Wednesday approved the state’s third “mini casino” license, and the second to occupy a former anchor department-store location in a regional mall that has suffered from an exodus of conventional retailers.
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board voted unanimously to award a license to a subsidiary of Penn National Gaming to construct the satellite casino in the York Galleria Mall. The mini-casino, which will be affiliated with the company’s Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course, has leased an 80,000-square-foot building that until last year was occupied by a Sears department store.
Construction is already underway at Hollywood Casino York, and it is expected to open in about 12 to 13 months, Penn National officials told the gaming board Wednesday. The facility, which will operate a single floor, will have 500 slot machines, 24 table games, a sports-betting and off-track betting parlor, as well as dining and beverage services.
The facility expects to create 260 construction jobs, and after operations are stabilized, it expects to have a full-time workforce of 200 people and generate about $1 million in annual tax and fee revenue for Springettsbury Township, the host community.
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Satellite casinos, which are formally called Category 4 casinos, are a unique feature of the expanded Pennsylvania gaming law passed in 2017. The law allowed the state’s existing casino licensees to bid on satellite locations of up to 750 slot machines and 30 table games.
Casinos bid on five locations for the satellite facilities, generating $127 million in fees for the state on winning bids ranging between $7.5 million and $50.1 million. Mount Airy Casino Resort later backed out of its rights to place a satellite casino north of Pittsburgh after failing to secure financing, and got 75% of its $21.2 million fee refunded.
The General Assembly later approved a second round of bidding for mini-casino licenses, but casinos did not bid and the market for new licenses is now closed.
The two other mini-casinos previously received gaming board approval: Penn National is opening Hollywood Casino Morgantown in Berks County, next to the Pennsylvania Turnpike; and Stadium Casino LLC in Philadelphia last month broke ground on its Live! Casino Pittsburgh, which will be in a repurposed department store in the Westmoreland Mall outside Greensburg.
The only facility that remains to get final approval is Parx Casino’s proposal to build a satellite casino in Shippensburg, but plans have stalled after its site was found to have sinkholes, and Parx is looking for a new location.
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READING, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania State Police along with Berks County law enforcement officers seized nearly 60 electronic gaming machines during a raid on a business, authorities said Friday. Berks County District Attorney John Adams announced Thursday’s operation during a news conference, saying almost $68,000 had been confiscated along with the machines from the 777 Casino in Kenhorst, Pennsylvania, operated by Windfall Amusements.
No charges had been filed as of Friday in what Adams said was an ongoing investigation.
Adams said the tip about allegedly illegal gambling machines came from an anonymous source who contacted the State Police. He said investigators read about the business in newspaper articles because the operators had sought approvals from several borough entities to adjust its hours of operations and to add additional gaming machines.
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Capt. James Jones with the State Police said it’s not unusual for gaming facilities to operate in the open.
“We frequently encounter machines that have been permitted by local municipalities in some way or another,” he said. “I don’t know that it’s the (municipality’s) responsibility to know what games would be legal when they are licensing a business… We have not encountered any of these machines in our investigations that are legal to operate.”
Adams noted that the business that advertised itself on Facebook as a casino, was not licensed to be a casino. The machines were not monitored like those operated at licensed casino facilities.
Adams said Penn National Gaming had received a license to open a casino currently under construction in Berks County. He said it had paid nearly $7.5 million to the state to become licensed, while 777 paid nothing.
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“The state receives from a licensed casino a percentage of slot machine revenue. They were receiving no revenue from Windfall Amusements, whatsoever,” Adams said.
Adams said the investigation is ongoing and charges may follow. A Facebook page for 777 had been shut down early Friday and calls to a number listed for Windfall Amusements were not answered.
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