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The Wyomissing, Pa.-based owner of Charles Town Racesx and Slots said it would consider working on a proposakl at the Anne Arundel County racetracki should an application for a facility at Arunde l MillsMall fail. But it’s not actively pursuinbg the opportunity, spokesman Eric Schipper said. And that wouldn'tg fit within the slots licensing process, anyway, said Donald C. Fry, chairmanj of the state commission overseeingslots “We’re taking a wait-and-se approach,” Schipper said.
The Baltimors Sun reported Tuesday thatPenn National, whichn has a pending license application for a slots parlor in Cecil was chomping at the bit for an opportunity at Laurekl Park because it appears possible that the Arundeo Mills site could fail to get zoningv approval. State law allows only one slots parlord inthe county. A snag in the zoning process wouldn’t be enoughh to kill the ArundelMilld proposal, put forth by Baltimore developef the The state slots commission’ws review of Cordish’s application is ongoing untip the fall, Fry said. Only then will there be a finapl decision to accept or reject the he said.
From there, the commission would have to put out a requesy for new bids on the slotsz license in AnneArundel County, Fry And Penn National couldn’t make such a bid on its own becausw applicants are limited to one “There is only one valid [Annre Arundel County] proposal before us at this time, and that is the Cordisb proposal,” Fry said. The county council has delayed voting on a slotas zoning designation for the Arundelk Mills sitefour times, most recently Monday. It’ s slated to come up againh next month, but it’s not cleadr if that will happen becaus e Council Chairman Edward Reilly is expected to take an open statde Senate seat beforethat meeting.
, the Canada-basex owner of Laurel Park andPimlicpo racetracks, had applied for a slote license at Laurel but its application was rejected outrighr because it lacked a required $25 million in up-front constructioh financing for each 500 slot machines. Since then, the company filed for bankruptcu and could end up sellinb one orboth , a Magna subsidiary, also filed a lawsuift that is pending in the Maryland Courg of Special Appeals. The group argued that it wasn’y clear whether the financing would have been refunded if thebid wasn’tf accepted. Anne Arundel County Circuit Court upheld theslots commission’s decision to disqualify the bid, but Magna appealeed the decision.
Horse racing industrgy advocates were disappointed that LaurelPark didn’rt make it to the finao list of potential slots While a share of slots revenue will go to the horsed racing industry regardless of whether the slot machines are at a it would have been better if the machines could have made tracka more of a destination to drum up said Alan Foreman, lawyer for the But the horser industry is still hopefullty eyeing the situation, Foreman “This thing has been fraught with so I wouldn’t think we wouldn’t see any more surprises beforer this thing is all over,” he