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Article: Slots In City? Don't Bet On It ; Stubborn Rumor About Hotel-Convention Center Is Denied No Application
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- Sunday News Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- April 19, 2009
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Associate Editor
gsmart@lnpnews.com
It's the rumor that won't go away:
Didja hear they're going to put slot machines in the new
convention center and hotel downtown?
For seven years at least it's been whispered, asserted and
published. A letter to the editor in both of Lancaster's daily
newspapers last week brought it up again: "Now that state regulators
have given the go-ahead to Valley Forge to install 500 slot
machines," asked the writer, "can the Lancaster County Convention
Center be far behind?"
Local officials were unequivocal in their response: The
convention center and adjacent hotel will host gatherings large and
small. Visitors from all over.
But it won't host one-armed bandits.
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