Penn National Gaming Opens Hollywood Morgantown Casino in Berks County
Penn National Gaming (PNG) has officially opened its 4th brick-and-mortar cassino in Pennsylvania.
Hollywood Casino Morgantown opened its doors today inwards Berks County. PNG spent $111 meg on the licensing fee and expression of the from-the-ground-up locale placed simply turned the Pennsylvania Turnpike at the I-176 interchange.
Hollywood Casino Morgantown is equipt with 750 one-armed bandit machines, 30 tabularize games, and a Barstool Sportsbook. It is PNG’s indorsement Category 4 so-called “satellite casino” in the commonwealth following Hollywood Casino York, which opened inwards August.
All gaming at Hollywood Morgantown is outfitted with PNG’s cashless, cardless, and contactless “mywallet” technology. The “mywallet” app is available for both Apple and Android mobile devices.
The “mywallet” app tin follow used at from each one of Penn’s quaternity casinos inward Pennsylvania. In add-on to Morgantown and York, Hollywood operates its flagship belongings in Grantville just now outdoors capital of Pennsylvania and The Meadows in the western parting of the state inward Washington.
Market Dominance
Penn National Gaming is the oldest gaming operator inward Pennsylvania, its roots geological dating rear to the 1960s with the building of William Penn National Race Course and its parimutuel wagering.
The Wyomissing-based fellowship was adamantly opposed to the province Republican-controlled legislative body and Democratic Gov. Tom Friedrich August Wolf greatly expanding gaming inwards 2017. The package that authorized the Category 4 mini-casinos nonetheless passed.
The legislative bundle additionally legalized picture gaming terminals interior sure truck stop over convenience stores, something William Penn also hard criticized. But some elements were welcomed by the gambling casino operator, to the highest degree specifically the res publica approbative iGaming and sports betting.
Despite Penn’s enmity to the Category 4 casinos, the companion successfully won two of the planet auction off rounds conducted by the Keystone State Gaming Control Board (PGCB). Penn paid a whopping $50.1 billion for the House of York license and $10.5 million for the Morgantown privileges.
Penn National execs said its House of York auction bridge beseech was necessary to protect York County and northern Maryland, 2 areas that get been decisive affluent markets for its briny cassino out of doors Harrisburg. Morgantown will cater to the contiguous counties of Berks, Lebanon, and Lancaster.
PNG’s quartet casinos reported add up GGR of to a greater extent than $94.2 billion inwards November alone. That was nearly 22 percent of the full Keystone State gaming industry, which won a monthly record book $432.5 1000000 finally month.
Morgantown Details
Hollywood Morgantown’s $111 billion investment is inclusive of the $10.5 zillion license. Along with the casino, the planet brings triplet insouciant dining options: Barstool Sportsbook, Tony Luke’s, and Red River Lotus Asian Kitchen.
The 80,000-square-foot terminus is unfastened 24 hours Fri through Sunday, and 9 am to 4 am day-after-day through and through the week. Hollywood Morgantown’s workforce numbers roughly 375 people. a smoking subdivision containing 160 slot machines is also available.
Hollywood Morgantown ran 2 test years endure weekend for invited guests. Gross gaming proceeds from the two-day went to local charities, including the United Way of Berks County, Honey Brook Food Pantry, and a grounding that supports first off responders and in-need armed services personnel inwards the community.
The tryout days raised $89,000. William Penn National rounded upward to $100,000, the money split betwixt the beneficiaries.