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Nemacolin Resort Drops Slots-License Bid

FARMINGTON, PA-This follows the exit of Seven Springs and Boyd Gaming from the list of applicants bidding for a Pennsylvania slots-gaming license, leaving 11 contenders for a potential of 14.

By Marita Thomas | Updated on November 30, 2006

FARMINGTON, PA-Nemacolin Woodland Resort has withdrawn its application for a slot-machine gaming license. Seven Springs Mountain Resort in nearby Champion withdrew its application a month ago. The exit of both leaves the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board with no applications for the two Category 3 licenses that were set aside for established resorts that would permit 500 slot machines at each.

Las Vegas-based Boyd Gaming Corp., which had applied for one of the two Category 2 licenses to be granted for what the board calls “tourism-enhanced” locations, has also dropped out of the running. This category allows for up to 5,000 slots over time. As a result of the withdrawals, the board will be able to issue just 11 of the 14 licenses to be granted by the state.

The reasons for the three withdrawals are varied. According to a statement by locally based Nemacolin, it dropped its bid because the gaming board required that patrons of the resort would have to spend $25 on non-gaming purchases each visit before being permitted to play the slot machines for the resort’s planned Wild West casino.

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