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Neighborhood Opposition Causing PA to Lose Big Money

Philadelphia’s problems with those not wanting to see slots and casinos come to their town just won’t end. The neighborhoods are fighting the state’s insistence that two waterfront casinos should be put in their town, and it’s costing the state $1.8 million a day in gross slots revenue.

The casino should have opened by now, as the battle has been waging for more than a year. The neighborhoods aren’t the only ones getting involved – there are disputes over construction rights and jurisdictional problems as well. Each day that the slots are not running is costing the state their 55% of that revenue which is close to a million dollars.

For their part, the neighborhoods say that they aren’t telling the state that they cannot bring in slots casinos, they are just telling them that they don’t want them near their schools, homes, churches, playgrounds, etc. They want them in an area of town near the warehouses where no one lives and where traffic isn’t already congested.

The longer the Philadelphia casinos are not running, the more money continues to flow out of the state and into New Jersey and New York. All of the other slots casinos that should have opened by now, have, it is just the Philadelphia ones that they are having troubles with.
 

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