A Category 4 Slot Machine License permits the entity to operate between 300 and 750 slot machines. The entity could also petition for permission to initially operate up to 30 table games for an additional fee of $2.5 million with the capability of adding an additional 10 tables games after its first year of operation. The table games certification was also approved by the Board on Wednesday.

In connection with the development of Live! Casino Pittsburgh, Stadium Casino will renovate a 100,000-square-foot area at the Westmoreland Mall. The casino will feature 750 slot machines and will open with 30 table games with an anticipated expansion to 40 tables. Other features will include dining and entertainment venues.

The facility is targeting a 2020 opening. When that occurs, Live! Casino Pittsburgh expects to employ 500 full- or part-time workers.

This is the second Category 4 license award by the Gaming Control Board. In June of this year, an award was approved for Penn National Gaming’s facility in Berks County. The Hollywood Casino Morgantown will total approximately 80,000 square foot facility will feature 750 slot machines and 30 table games, with the ability to accommodate an additional 10 table games. The facility is to be developed on a vacant 36-acre site in Caernarvon Township. The construction timeline on the $111-million project is anticipated to be approximately 18 months.

Three of the projects that won auctions to apply are pending, the gaming board reported.

Also in June, The Rivers Casino Pittsburgh announced plans to break ground on a new $60-million North Shore hotel later this summer.

The seven-story, four-star hotel property will be called “The Landing Hotel Pittsburgh” and will include 219 guest rooms. The hotel will attach to the existing casino on the east facade, facing the Carnegie Science Center.