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Now that the Pennsylvania Gaming and Control Board have
issued the majority of the slot machines licenses in the state, all of these
slots parlors are in the beginning stages of mass construction. All across
the state the newly licensed racetracks are implementing the slot machines
plans. For some this means temporarily shutting down current facilities, and
for others, they are bringing in the slot machines in temporary facilities,
maintaining other operations, and then building the long-term slots parlors.
Such is the case with the Mohegan Sun. Rather than wait for construction to
finish on their planned slots facility, the Mohegan Sun was the first to
open slot machines in the state via their temporary slots facility. Now that
their slot machines are open, they have time and revenue to use toward
building the permanent facility.
Other racetracks, like the Penn National Race Course, went so far was to
remove the grandstand so that they have room for the slot machines. Now the
focus of Penn National is definitely going to be in the slot machines while
they continue construction on the facility. The patrons at Penn can only
watch the races via a closed circuit television—the grandstand won’t be back
until closer to the opening of the slot machines permanent facility.
And the construction doesn’t end there, at Meadows Casino and Racetrack,
they have a slot machine casino yet only one employee working at the slots
so far—their Vice President and General Manger, Michael Graninger. According
to Graninger, "Our heads are spinning. We've got construction, we've got
regulations, we've got contracts, we've got diversity, and so far I'm the
only one here."
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