The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has scheduled a hearing to receive public input on the category 4 mini-casino planned for the former Macy’s location at the Nittany Mall.
The hearing will take place at 4 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 16, at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center.
It “will provide a forum for individuals to voice their support or opposition to the proposed casino at the Nittany Mall and to permit those persons with an interest in the applicant’s proposal to learn more about the project,” according to a PGCB news release on Tuesday.
Individuals will be able to attend and offer testimony in-person or remotely and the hearing also will be streamed live on the PGCB website.
Some visitors at Pennsylvania casinos have had the ultimate luck.
They
left children in the car while they went into casinos. When they returned, the found their kids unharmed. The child wasn’t suffering from heat stroke. They didn’t choke on a handful of Cheerios. Their toddler didn’t decide to wander the parking lot and get struck by an SUV.
In 2020,
child endangerment. In nearly all instances, it was the result of
leaving children unattended in a vehicle.
Twenty-one children were left abandoned in vehicles at casinos in 2020.
In the vast majority of the cases, casino security was