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We went to the (new) Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races yesterday to check it out. The table games opened last week and the place is being renovated and up-dated. It's looking really "glitzy" but, there is still a lot of work going on...in the meantime, the place was packed ! I'd hate to try to get in there on a weekend. They absolutely have it All now and once it's complete it should be a destination in the East for serious gambling. The impact on Jefferson County will be interesting to follow , not to mention the influx of people, traffic, and MONEY!
Thanks for the report. I live a stone's throw from the Casino but haven't been over there yet. Everyone says it's been packed, but I haven't noticed any differences in traffic.
goes to show how uninformed the dupes are. just more poverty and social ills.
for every dollar wasted in the games the less the children and grandchildren benefit. these games steal from the future.
There was also the churches that bussed their members to the polls to vote in opposition to the resolution the first time that never appeared the second time.
Most of that happened because the horsemen didn't want it. The track opened in 1933 and is ingrained in this county. Farmers depend on it, feed shops depend on it, track employees depend on it as do all of their families.
goes to show how uninformed the dupes are. just more poverty and social ills.
for every dollar wasted in the games the less the children and grandchildren benefit. these games steal from the future.
Sure, there are a number of people who ruin their lives with gambling. But for the most part, the money the casino takes in is just disposable income that they would spend in a bar or the movies or some other such entertainment.
It's entertainment..pure and simple..and if you bring home more money than you took there, it's all good. I do realize that gambling can be a problem for some...but, there is help for them.
Sure, there are a number of people who ruin their lives with gambling. But for the most part, the money the casino takes in is just disposable income that they would spend in a bar or the movies or some other such entertainment.
Exactly. Gambling or something else? So what if we sell less televisions, movie tickets, dinners out with the family?
Well, to those who work in those professions, yeah, I guess they care.
That's the thing with gambling. The only positives in the end is any money that comes from out of state. Anything else is a wash at best. As I noted, when too much leaves the other states, they will change things so the money stays there.
Gambling doesn't produce anything. It's a very temporary answer.
I don't think WV has to worry about other states if they do it right. It's not as though they haven't had race track betting forever. 65% or more of Las Vegas' business comes from California, mostly SoCal. Utah will never allow gambling, and Arizona and California have very little. They both have a few Indian casinos, and Calif. has always had some race tracks and card rooms. It has been that way for decades. The north bound lanes of the interstate from Friday afternoon until late into the night, and the southbound lanes on Sundays, are literally bumper to bumper for the 270 mile drive every weekend. It has been that way for 50 years or more, because of all that Las Vegas offers that no one else can. Not starting a business because someone else might give you competition is silly. Competition is the engine that drives business. It's how you market and sell it, and the service and quality product you offer, that counts
Gambling is expanding in Ohio and Maryland already. WV is never going get the major theme hotels like in Vegas built. WV is never going to draw the major acts in the way Vegas does.
I never said I had a problem with it, just that's it's a temporary answer at best. It would be far better to get businesses that actually create something.
Expanded gambling will hurt Vegas also but people will still go there in the same way that people in WV still go to Niagra Falls even though we have Blackwater Falls.
The problem is that without the county doing deals for other commercial entities (which they get flak from the residents all the time about) there will be zero commercial groups that want to come to Jefferson. They need the highway completed and with that it may brign some more business (mostly of the food variety) but at least it is something. The casino has already brought some things that have not been made public yet as there are about 10 approved building permits which will begin construction shortly as well as three hotel permits waiting to be approved which is expected to be a non issue....especially after how packed the hotels have been the past week.
MD only has slots and those have yet to open or are facing new issues. Ohio just approved casinos in four major cities (Cleveland, Toledo, Cincinnati, and Columbus) with them opening in 2012. PA has just opened their table games locations but the closest is still further from DC than C'Town is. What I am getting at is that as long as C'Town has Table Games and the MD casinos don't then the majority of DC business will flow to WV (esp. Hollywood Casino at C'Town Races)
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