December 16, 2020 American casino firm Penn National Gaming Incorporated has announced the signing of a deal that is to see it spend $31.1 million so as to take over the running of operations inside Maryland’s small Hollywood Casino Perryville. The Wyomissing-headquartered firm used an official Tuesday press release to proclaim that the arrangement with the Gaming and Leisure Properties Incorporated real estate investment trust (REIT) it spun off in November of 2013 is expected to close next summer ‘subject to the approval of the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Commission’ and also involves an annual rent commitment for the around 75,000 sq ft property of approximately $7.7 million.