Maryland’s first slots parlor has just opened. From the Philly Inquirer:
Tim Wilmott, chief operating officer and president of Wyomissing, Pa.-based Penn National Gaming Inc., joined Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley in a ribbon-cutting for the $97.5 million casino, whose doors first opened to the public Monday after trial test days last weekend.O'Malley praised Penn National for building the slots parlor, which created 350 casino jobs, in less than two years. Maryland voters approved gambling in a November 2008 referendum."We are here to move the state forward and to keep [gambling] revenues from leaving our borders for Delaware and West Virginia," the governor said.The 75,000-square-foot casino is just off the interstate's Exit 93, about 25 miles south of Delaware Park in Wilmington, 50 miles from Harrah's Chester Casino and Racetrack in Delaware County, 65 miles from SugarHouse on the Philadelphia waterfront, and 80 miles from Parx in Bensalem.
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So the MidAtlantic region’s shaping up to be a real casino hotbed, with slot parlors mere dozens of miles from each other.