gaming
The Second Philly Casino License Goes to Live!
The PA Gaming Control Board has just publicly voted to award the second Philadelphia casino license to Stadium Casino LLC, operating as Live! This is […]
Ugly Allegations Enter Philly Casino License Picture
Someone affiliated with one of the four casino bidders (not Live!) sent me the below video this morning, shortly after I saw the same story […]
Will South Philly Beat Out Center City for a Casino?
Tomorrow the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board holds a special meeting at the Pennsylvania Convention Center at which it publicly votes on who gets Philadelphia’s second […]
Morning Headlines: Experts Consider Atlantic City’s Fate
The Inquirer has a lengthy report this morning speculating on Atlantic City’s fate come September, when as many as four Boardwalk properties may be vacant. […]
High-End Shore Market Unlikely to Be Hurt By Casino Closures
The legalization of gambling across the Northeast has hit Atlantic City hard: The latest victim, Trump Entertainment Resorts confirmed this weekend, is Trump Plaza, which […]
Atlantic City’s Showboat Casino to Announce Closing
Bad days in Atlantic City: Just a week after the Revel announced it would close if it doesn’t find a buyer, the Showboat Casino appears […]
Will Philadelphia Get Its Own Space Needle?
PHL Local Gaming — one of the five contenders for that ever elusive casino license in Philadelphia — has announced a potential new feature for […]
Tavern Games Turn Out Not to Be a Windfall
When Gov. Tom Corbett signed a bill last year allowing taverns to host small games of chance, the expectation was that the project might provide […]
Morning Headlines: Market8 Gets Three Political Endorsements
Market8 has been endorsed yet again, this time by state and local legislators: Rep. John Taylor, Rep. Michael O’Brien, and Councilman Mark Squilla. They join […]
Morning Headlines: Casino Smackdown Begins. Who Will Win?
Today is the start of three days of hearings during which the final five bidders for Philadelphia’s casino license will make their case before the […]
Is Philadelphia’s Next Casino Just a Spoonful of Slots to Make the Restaurants Go Down?
One of the things that struck us about Bart Blatstein’s Provence casino proposal from the day it was announced was the function the casino would […]
Blatstein Introduces Two Celebrity Chefs for Casino Complex
Two star New York chefs whose restaurants sparked neighborhood revivals, Tom Colicchio and Andrew Carmellini, will establish operations in Philadelphia as part of developer Bart […]
Fortuna Realty to PHL Local: If You Build It, We Will Come
PHL Local Gaming, one of the five remaining contenders for Philadelphia’s casino license, announced today that Fortuna Realty Group has given them a letter of […]
ThinkFest Video: Frank Lee
Remember that game of Pong on the Cira Centre? Frank Lee helped create that Guinness Record winning, world’s largest video game. As Associate Professor of […]
Market8 Group: ‘Understands Dynamics of African-American Community’
Today Market8, one of the five remaining contenders for Philadelphia’s casino license, announced new endorsements for its project: those of the Philadelphia NAACP; the Urban […]