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Article: Adkins says track will keep pact with voters: ; Tri-State official plans to use West Virginia labor on expansion project
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- July 18, 2008
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A top Tri-State Racetrack official guarantees that West Virginia
labor will build the hotel, conference center and other facilities
included in the casino's promised expansion.
Critics and local officials had expressed concern that Tri-State
was ignoring West Virginia companies as it pursued expanded its
Nitro facility after Kanawha County voters approved table games last
August.
Earlier this year, the racetrack severed ties with ZMM Architects
& Engineers of Charleston, which was tapped as a project designer. A
Florida-based firm, ARC Avenue Inc., was then hired to help with the
racetrack's expansion.
But the racetrack had to rely on ARC in order to get table games
up and running in Nitro, ...