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Monday, February 18, 2013

First Slots Deadline Coming on Monday

The state Gaming Commission has set Monday as the deadline for all companies to decide whether it is seeking a resort casino license or slots parlor license.

Monday is the first hard deadline for The Cordish Companies and its subsidiary PPE Casino Resorts MA - the company that has been eyeing Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers for a possible slots parlor. The deadline was set just last Monday. It applies to both PPE Casino Resort and Rush Street Gaming, two of the 11 applicants that have not said whether they seek a resort casino license or slots license. Cordish and its PPE subsidiary have been considering a plan for a 100,000-square-foot, 1,250 slots complex that would be built at Liberty Tree Mall. Not many other details have emerged about the plan. WWLP-TV in Springfield reports that the other location being eyed by Cordish is Chicopee, where the company is interested in a riverfront mill area. …

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Liberty Tree Mall (in Danvers Patch), Casino Developer Has Week to Decide if it Will Pursue Slots License (in Danvers Patch), Slots Developer to Meet with Selectmen on Wednesday (in Danvers Patch), and 1 more ›

Friday, January 25, 2013

Two Known Slots Plans are Neighbors South of Boston

This week news emerged that Danvers is being eyed as a possible location for the state's only slots parlor, but what are some of the possible competitors?

Until this week, there were just two announced proposals competing for the state's sole slots parlor license that could be issued as soon as the end of the year. Then this week, news broke that PPE Casino Resorts has inquired about the possibility of locating a 100,000 square foot, 1,200 machine slots parlor at Liberty Tree Mall. PPE is one of just two of the 11 applicants that submitted the required $400,000 deposit to the state Gaming Commission last week without specifying whether it wants a license for a slots parlor or resort casino. The company also did not say where it planned to build it. Both details are required as part of the phase 2 application process, which is coming up later this year. The gaming law requires a minimum …

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Mall Possible Site for Slots Parlor by Baltimore Developer (in Danvers Patch), Liberty Tree Mall (in Danvers Patch), Suffolk Casino Developer: We Will Help Improve North Shore Traffic (in Danvers Patch), and 1 more ›

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