Charitable Casinos Proposed for Two New Hampshire Communities

A local preparation get on inward New Hampshire on Monday testament deliberate a proposition to establish a good-hearted gaming casino. It testament also include a restaurant.

Lebanon, N.H., provision get on members testament discuss the proposed gaming prop at the land site formerly living accommodations Gerrish Honda.

The gameboard must schedule a situation visit, as advantageously as take hold a public audition on the proposal.

Locally, the street is called Miracle Mile.

If the project is approved, it will include a gaming blank and a 41-seat restaurant/bar, the Valley News, a New Hampshire down news organization, reported.

The gaming storey will get 111 electronic gaming devices and 90 gaming tables, according to the proposal.

As envisioned, it would include 17,335-square feet on the first of all floor. There also would live a 1,360-square-foot mezzanine.

The throw would enjoyment the existing building. It is currently vacant.

The gambling casino would tight an increment in traffic inwards the area, Engineering Ventures, a Lebanon-based consultant, predicted.

Site Was Car Dealership

The property, a former Honda dealership, was sold inwards 2016 to Gengras Motor Cars, a Connecticut-based auto dealer.

Its dealer is Jonathan Gengras. Gengras and Stefan Huba, a consultant who specializes in developing casinos, are the developers of the project.

Gengras will remain the proprietor of the Miracle Mile property. He will charter it to Huba, the account said.

If given approvals, the gambling casino must donate 35% of proceeds to charitable nonprofits under New Hampshire law.

Games tin can include poker, bingo, lottery, keno, and raffles, the Valley News said. Also allowed are roulette, blackjack, and electronic expansion slot machines, the account added.

The sympathetic organizations must be approved by the New Hampshire Lottery Commission.

The stream name of permitted organizations includes o'er 12,000 non-profits.

Lebanon already has i openhearted casino. It is called the Lebanon Poker Room & Casino. It opened in 2018. It offers poker, blackjack, roulette, and some 34 one-armed bandit machines.

Lebanon is situated close the New Hampshire-Vermont border.

Concord Proposal

Meanwhile, inward Concord, N.H., some 58 miles southeastward of Lebanon, a planned charitable gaming coordination compound is potential to follow reviewed by capital of New Hampshire Planning Board members next month, the Concord Monitor newspaper publisher reported.

It testament include a casino, hotel, and restaurant. It testament feature a 24,000-square-foot gaming floor.

That will make 634 seats. Plans also call up for an 8,500-square-foot restaurant and brew-pub. It would feature seating room for virtually 150.

A hotel and event heart would live developed later, according to stream plans.

The developer is Andy Sanborn who owns the Draft Sports Bar & Grill and the Concord Casino, a charitable casino inwards Concord. He is a former New Hampshire down state senator. In the Senate, he was chair of the Commerce, Health/Human Services and Ways and Means committees. He also ran for Congress.

Sanborn predicts the new gambling casino would pencil lead to over 250 jobs. It will also increment local tourism.

But Robert the Bruce Carri, who lives close the land site of the planned casino, has been worried about increased traffic, the Monitor said.

Given that this is a gateway from the E of the city, I’m not sure it’s the topper exercise of the site to have got a casino follow the for the first time thing people check when they follow inwards from the Seacoast,” Carri was quoted by the Monitor.

“It’s non the topper range of a function for the Capital City that we should need to convey.”