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DETAILS AWAITED ON THE BALLY’S-CONNECTED MINI-CASINO COMING TO CENTRE COUNTY BY PENNBETS' GARY ROTSTEIN

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Things have been quiet the past two months regarding Centre County’s pending mini-casino, and Tuesday seemed no different even though it represented an important notch on the project’s timeline.

It has been six months since Philadelphia real estate and business investor Ira Lubert secured the rights to develop Pennsylvania’s fifth mini-casino by virtue of a winning $10 million bid at a Sept. 2 Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board auction.

The board’s procedures provided Lubert six months — or until Tuesday — to submit to the agency a detailed application describing the project’s specific location, site development plan, financing, economic impact, transportation considerations, and more.

The only real news about the project to come out subsequent to the September auction has been a Jan. 4 announcement by Bally’s Corp., a national casino company without any prior Pennsylvania connection, that it had reached a partnership agreement with Lubert “to jointly design, develop, construct, and manage” the project.

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