Pennsylvania and Delaware’s slots-only casinos are going to be adding table games in the future. Last week, the Pennsylvania legislature and the Governor agreed to a budget that would expand gambling in the form of blackjack and poker tables. Delaware added the games in May. Atlantic City is already on the offensive boasting on billboards [...]

The Philadelphia Daily News ran a story this morning headlined “Looks like it’s back to South Philly for Foxwoods casino.” Holy cow! Are we going to go through another round of noisy protests? It was one year ago when Foxwoods announced it was willing to consider building its slots-only casino in the Market East Gallery [...]

The Philadelphia Planning Commission will review the revised plan (pdf) for the Sugar House casino planned along the Delaware riverfront. The meeting will be held Wednesday, June 24 @ 1:00 p.m. at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Sugar House is one of two casinos that are planned for Philadelphia under a State gambling plan. [...]

Casino opponents can’t believe their eyes. Over at Young Philly Politics Daniel U-A rails over yesterday’s City Council unanimous vote to rezone the area around 8th & Market Streets for the planned Foxwoods casino.
This is painfully embarrassing. Today, City Council approved the Zoning for Foxwoods. And yet, as Helen has noted, Foxwoods has [...]

The smell of casino money must be intoxicating for state governments. Every state that adopts a limited form of gambling always finds new reasons to add more ways to bet. In Pennsylvania, Governor Ed Rendell wants to help poor students go to college by letting every bar have video poker. Yesterday, Delaware Governor Jack Markell [...]

I was going to write a little about a recent column by Inquirer architecture critic Inga Saffron in which the scourge of design-challenged developers takes on a Queen Village Neighbors Association decision to allow a couple of homes to be built with (gasp!) street-level, front-facing garages!
But that seems like pretty small potatoes compared to the [...]

Greg Heller at Urban Direction points out that the Canadians appear to have a little crush on the City of Brotherly Love.
So don’t worry, Philadelphia. Even though a riverfront casino with a 3,000-space parking garage is now on schedule to open within a year (more on that later, I’m sure), we can take comfort in [...]

The casino developers behind SugarHouse Casino finally got the foundation permit that they wanted. The permit was part of the casino’s recent complaint to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that the City of Philadelphia was moving too slow in the approval process. Earlier this week, the high court agreed with SugarHouse and approved its request for [...]

By Jason Kleinman
Two recent developments now appear to put the planned SugarHouse casino on a fast track for development. Yesterday’s Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision to appoint a Special Master to mediate disputes, along with increasing pressure from Harrisburg, now brings the plan closer to reality. As a result of this new momentum, SugarHouse may have [...]

The City of Philadelphia has been a bad boy lately. At least that’s the way it appears to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court who sided with Sugarhouse Casino in its request for a Special Master to mediate any future disputes between the city and the yet-to-be built casino.
Sugerhouse believes the city has been dragging its feet [...]