HARRISBURG, Pa. – The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board
(PGCB) has set April 5 as a public hearing date for Chance
Enterprises’ proposed Crossroads Gaming Resort &
Spa (formerly the Gettysburg Casino and Spa) in Straban Township,
Pa.
The
public hearing on Chance’s proposal will begin at
8:30 a.m., on April 5, in the ballroom adjacent to the student
union at Gettysburg College, 300 North Washington Street,
Gettysburg.
One
of Chance’s investors, David Michael LeVan, serves
as a member of the board of trustees at the college, according
to Kendra Branchick, assistant director of communications.
“The college has remained neutral on the casino,”
she stated, but noted that the college faculty has voted
as a body against the casino.
Individuals
interested in commenting at the public hearings must submit
a registration form that can be downloaded from the gaming
board’s Web site, www.pgcb.state.pa.us, and sent to
the board postmarked no later than March 6, according to
the PGCB.
“Information
gathered at the hearings will become part of the formal
record that the board considers when deciding which of the
proposed facilities to license,” according to PGCB
Chairman Tad Decker.
The
proposed Gettysburg area casino falls within PGCB’s
Category 2, a stand-alone casino not associated with a horse
park. The Category 2 sites include two in Philadelphia,
one in Pittsburgh, and two “wild card” licenses
which can be anywhere in the state.
The
Crossroads Gaming Resort & Spa, proposed on Route 30
near the U.S. 15 interchange by Chance Enterprises, will
be vying for one of the two “wild card” licenses.
Crossroads’
non-Philadelphia, non-Pittsburgh competitors and their proposed
locations include:
- Tropicana
Pennsylvania, LLC (Allentown);
- Sands Bethworks Gaming LLC (Bethlehem);
- Boyd Pennsylvania Partners, LP (Limerick);
- Mount Airy #1, LLC (Monroe County); and
- Pocono Manor Investors, LP (Monroe County).
Two
of the “wild card” contenders previously listed
for Category 2 permits, Trum Construction Company (Western
Pennsylvania) and Pennsylvania Gaming Group, LLP (Lancaster),
have potentially been eliminated from further consideration
because of allegedly incomplete applications.
PGCB
Spokesman Nick Hays told The Dispatch that the
board found that the two applicants failed to provide letters
of credit or bonds, and that Trum further failed to provide
an application filing fee. Both were given ten days to establish
that they had complied with application requirements.
“They
did not submit everything that was necessary,” Hays
stated. Should they fail to do so, the application would
be eliminated from the list of contenders.
