Pittsburgh Casino

[eldondre]

Dozens of license applications pending before the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board tell a story of local economic opportunity...SYSCO Food Services of Pittsburgh LLC pitched its distribution services to the casino, said president and COO Len Petrancosta. While it awaits the casino’s decision, the company has submitted its license application to the state’s gaming board.

Giffin Interior & Fixture Inc. in Bridgeville has been providing its architectural woodwork to Pennsylvania casinos since the Presque Isle Downs & Casino opened in Erie in 2007.

Its licensing application was approved recently. President Gordon Giffin said he had to tweak things along the away at the request of the gaming board.

Harbach said the state’s licensing standards are definitely stricter than most.

Not only does it license more — Nevada, for example, doesn’t require licenses

http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2009/02/16/story1.html?b=1234760400^1778115

The major recruiting effort for Pittsburgh’s Rivers Casino begins in late March with a one-day career fair, where managers in charge of everything from food service to finance will set up booths and talk shop with potential employees.

Following that, the company will hold periodic job fairs — a mall booth with pamphlets, for example, to spread awareness of the new employer. Job postings and applications also are listed at thepittsburghcasino.com.

The majority of employees, about 800, will be hired in June and July. The casino is slated to open in August.

http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pi...9/daily49.html

[desolate]

Gee.. Man new jobs would have been nice.

Thanks team Nutter/DiCicco

[eldondre]

The casino has had two credit-rating downgrades from Standard & Poor's since debuting Aug. 9. The most recent was on Nov. 24, when its credit rating went from a "B-" to a "C" for severe underperformance...But Rivers, which has consistently finished in the bottom tier among Pennsylvania's nine casinos, remains on pace to earn slightly less than half the revenue projected by the state before it opened, and slightly less than 40 percent of the revenue projected by its owner, Chicago billionaire Neil Bluhm, who is also majority investor of the planned SugarHouse Casino for Philadelphia's waterfront.

Suburban competition hurts Pittsburgh's Rivers Casino | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/08/2010

is sugarhouse permanent? shoudl we rebid foxwoods?

[desolate]

Suburban competition hurts Pittsburgh's Rivers Casino | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/08/2010

is sugarhouse permanent? shoudl we rebid foxwoods?

You must have not driven by Sugarhouse in awhile.

[eldondre]

You must have not driven by Sugarhouse in awhile.

no, I imagine they're still building the temporary casino they designed though.

[desolate]

no, I imagine they're still building the temporary casino they designed though.

It's framed out in steel.

Pretty much just another tourist attraction. Not really a huge impact.

I'd liken it to another Dave and Busters.


Do know that the Bensalem Casino really has helped Street Road without increasing crime or traffic.

[eldondre]

looks like crap in the renderings, not another toursit attraction, the slots equivalent of pier 70 more likley. it's supposed to be temporary though I'd imagine they simply planned on adding to it rather than tearing it down and replacing it.

[desolate]

looks like crap in the renderings, not another toursit attraction, the slots equivalent of pier 70 more likley. it's supposed to be temporary though I'd imagine they simply planned on adding to it rather than tearing it down and replacing it.

EL, compared to the neighbors this is a gem.



The neighbors. (I'm one of them. BTW)

Google Maps

Live Webcam

Keating Group Recognized Leaders in Construction Real Estate Development and Environmental management

and the Planing Commission Presentation.

http://www.sugarhousecasino.com/asse...use%206.24.pdf

[eldondre]

meh, sea of asphalt. pier 70 slots. 1200 market all over again

[mixiboi]

EL, compared to the neighbors this is a gem.

That's pretty nice, better then the purple that was on the website..

SugarHouse | Pure Fun

[billy ross]

EL, compared to the neighbors this is a gem.



The neighbors. (I'm one of them. BTW)

Google Maps

Live Webcam

Keating Group Recognized Leaders in Construction Real Estate Development and Environmental management

and the Planing Commission Presentation.

http://www.sugarhousecasino.com/asse...use%206.24.pdf

It looks like a Walmart with a porte cochere. Fortunately, Philly has alot more to offer than that. Unfortunately, this won't add much to what Philly has to offer. I'll have to make a point of cruising by the site so I can check up on the progress, to see whether it has redeeming features. It looks like it comes out to the sidewalk, which is better than the Wal-mart does down the street.

[mixiboi]

And its better than a fence off grass lot its been for the past 20 years....

[eldondre]

this should bode well for sugarhouse, maybe they will follow through on plans to upgrade the craptastic slots box (hopefully license 2 gets redesigned totally and rebid)

The Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh generated more revenue from table games than any other casino in the state last month. But the achievement comes with an asterisk.

Numbers released this morning by the state Gaming Control Board showed that the Rivers Casino produced $3 million in gross revenue from test days and in the 24 days after table games were officially launched on July 8. That's more than $700,000 higher than the second-place finisher, the Parx Casino in Philadelphia, which typically posts the highest revenue totals from slot machines each month.

Read more: Rivers Casino leads state in table games revenue

[desolate]

you mena the original plans before they were forced to do a drag out knock down legal fight with the Nutter Admin that cuased the funding to dry up reducing the site to it's current state?