Investors Consider RV Park Instead of Hotel for New Casino
Here's an interesting strategy in an effort to win a precious casino license from Pennsylvania gaming regulators: turn your facility into a Mecca for recreational vehicles.
KYW's Tony Romeo reports the Gaming Control Board has yet to award one of its smaller "resort" casino licenses. To qualify for the resort license, the bidder must have a facility with at least 275 hotel rooms.
The Holiday Inn – Harrisburg West doesn't quite meet that requirement. So the solution? Put 36 recreational vehicles in the parking lot and rent them overnight and turn the casino into a destination for RV enthusiasts.
John Donnelly, an investor in the group bidding for the license, insists it's not just a gimmick to meet the room requirement:
"Many of you don't know that that's a very, very big market in gaming throughout the country. Circus Circus on the strip has an RV park that has been very, very successful."
Donnelly says the RV's would be a little cheaper than hotel rooms, too.
