Bensalem Casino's Meeting with Council May Get Postponed
Eight days after gamblers started playing table games at Parx in Bensalem, casino officials planned to go before the township council on Monday with plans to expand the gambling hall. But a little before noon on Monday, that public meeting was facing a likely postponement.
KYW's Brad Segall reports that the casino was on the agenda for Monday night's council meeting. Council was expected to take a look at land development plans that reportedly includes a nearly 90,000-square-foot expansion for the main building.
Parx has more than 3,500 slot machines, and nearly 60 table games were added to the casino floor earlier this month. At that time, Parx spokeswoman Carrie Nork Minelli told KYW Newsradio that expansion plans for the near future included the addition of more tables for poker, certain types of Asian games, and full service baccarat tables.
There's 400 acres of land on the site, plenty of room for Greenwood Gaming to continue to grow. Parx officials would not talk specifics prior to the meeting, which was likely to be postponed until the council's next meeting, scheduled for August 9th.
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