Police Preparing For Sands BethWorks Casino
One of the biggest economic projects in the Lehigh Valley in decades is now officially underway after a ceremonial groundbreaking Monday. Approximately 200 people attended the Sands BethWorks ceremony launching the $600 million casino, hotel and retail complex on the grounds of the old Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
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Gambling casinos info:
- Riverboat Gaming Has Captured 20% of the Casino Market Share. Mississippi now has more gambling square footage than Atlantic City.
- Las Vegas is a testament of the powerful ability of gambling to foster economic development. Because of gambling, Las Vegas has shown impressive job growth, developed into a major city with a low tax burden that many state and local governments look at with envy.
- Casino gambling, including Indian gaming, is legal in 27 states and most of the casinos have been built in the last 5 years according to "America's Gambling Fever", U. S. News and World Report, 15 Jan 1996
- Legal gambling operations in Washington reported $1.7 billion in net receipts in 2005: 61 percent was reported by tribal casinos, 10 percent came from the state lottery. 2 percent of responders in a February state survey said they placed bets online.
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