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Bucks County, it’s only a matter of time until you can shuffle up and deal.

This past week, Penn National Gaming, Inc. announced that its second Category 4 satellite casino will be located in Caernarvon Township in Bucks County. Its name is Hollywood Casino Morgantown.

Timothy J. Wilmott, Penn National’s CEO, made the following statement via press release:

“While we explored numerous locations for our Category 4 casino in and around Berks County, the site we selected is unparalleled in terms of ease of access to three major arteries. Hollywood Casino Morgantown is ideally situated to generate new revenues from the more densely populated suburbs to the west of Philadelphia, while further protecting our existing market share at Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course.”

The announcement ended the mystery of Penn National’s second satellite casino. It was the only remaining license that had not submitted plans to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB)

The Bucks County casino is the second of two satellites Penn National will build. The other location, Hollywood Casino York, will go in open retail space at York Galleria.

Details about Hollywood Casino Morgantown

Per PA gambling laws, satellite casinos are allowed up to 750 slot machines and 30 table games the first year. there is also the option to add 10 additional table games the second year.

Penn National said they’re launching with 750 slots and 30 table games.

Here are further details about their property. Unlike Hollywood Casino York, this mini-casino will go on an empty lot. The project should create around 250 jobs.

• The building process will create around 275 construction jobs
• Construction should take about 18 months
• Caernarvon Township gets two percent of gross slots revenue and one percent of table games revenue.
• 80,000 square-feet in size

According to the release, the project will cost $111 million, which includes the roughly $10 million in licensing fees.

Hollywood Casino York details

This past September, Penn National revealed plans for its other mini-casino license. The company will open a satellite property inside an old Sears in York Galleria Mall.

This option wasn’t turnkey. However, it did present Penn National the ability to use an existing building rather having to build from the ground up as they will at Hollywood Casino Morgantown.

This nuance to their plans is considerably cheaper for Penn National. Without licensing fees, the York casino will cost around $67 million, which is about $33 million less than their Berks County casino.

An article from the Reading Eagle included the following quote from Wilmott about the York County project:

“We believe the York Galleria Mall, which is a well-known retail destination in York County, is an ideal site for our planned Hollywood Casino York. We explored numerous other potential opportunities within York County, but the mall’s convenient location, existing infrastructure, and ample parking, as well as the support of Springettsbury Township officials and the local business community, helped cement our decision.”

The likelihood of sinkholes may sink the location for a proposed Parxmini-casino in Shippensburg, near Exit 29 of I-81.

PennLive reported this week geological testing threw doubt on the geologic stability of the proposed location, which had already been approved by township officials.

According to a recent state Geological Survey publication, a sinkhole is:

“A subsidence feature in an area underlain by carbonate bedrock. It can form rapidly and is characterized by a distinct break in the land surface and the downward movement of surface materials into the resulting hole or cavity.”

The same publication contains a map showing a huge swath of South Central Pennsylvania, including Shippensburg, which has rock formation more commonly known as limestone, making it prone to sinkholes.

Caves dot the region as a result. Acidic rain formed by pollution has accelerated the prevalence of sinkholes. The rain seeps into fissures and rapidly dissolves the supporting bedrock.

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Mini-casino location faced ‘significant issues’

There are numerous news accounts of sinkholes in the area, including a 15-foot fissure 20 years ago on a lane of I-81 in Shippensburg.

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Most sinkholes in the region are small nuisances, often on roadways because of the compaction caused by traffic. Concrete can fill, seal, and stabilize the smaller holes. However, buildings are sometimes ruled unsafe and razed due to large sinkholes.

PennLive also cited growing concern over large trucks, which would share an access road with the casino site.

“There were significant issues that developed with the original site. We are currently working with the Shippensburg community and leaders to identify alternatives in the community,” Parx’s Chief Marketing Officer Marc Oppenheimer told PennLive.

He declined additional comment to the news site. The status of the approved location is unclear.

A spokesman for the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) said Parx had not discussed the site issues with regulators. An alternative location would likely require a new public hearing, added the spokesman.

Two additional Parx mini-casino sites were nixed

Parx had pursued two previous sites without success. One was in Carlisle, while the other was in South Middleton Township.

Parent company Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment planned 475 slot machines, 40 table game seats, and a sports betting lounge for the location.

Local officials want a new site in the township.

Additional mini-casinos in the pipeline and on the auction block

PA has five approved mini-casino locations, including the Parx location.

To date, just one location in Hollywood Casino Morgantown, also in South Central Pennsylvania, appears to be moving along.

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The mini-casino category came with a gaming expansion law passed in October 2017. The legislation allowed for up to 10 new Class 4 casinos with 300 to 750 slot machines and up to 30table games.

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The original law allowed 10 mini-casinos. Five of the licenses drew no bids. The PGCB recently set in motion a new attempt to sell the remaining licenses at a series of auctions beginning Sept. 4.

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The first five satellite casino auctions generated a whopping total of $127 million in licensing fees for the state.

Bidding for the remaining licenses stopped in April 2018.

Once a new auction results in no bids, there will be no further attempts to sell any remaining licenses.