New applicant vying for Pa. slots license
HARRISBURG - There's a new suitor for Pennsylvania's last license for a resort-style casino with as many as 500 slot machines.
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board said an investor group that includes the owners of a Berks County hotel applied for the license this week.
Board officials will begin reviewing the application for the Crowne Plaza Reading Hotel in Wyomissing.
A spokesman for the group would not disclose the investors' names, and a gaming board spokesman said he did not immediately have the information.
The $30 million plan calls for a 12,000-square-foot gambling floor inside the hotel.
Another group applied for this last resort license in 2007. But the owners of the Fernwood Hotel & Resort in the Pocono Mountains have been unable to line up financing for the project.
