Ohio ponders a future with casinos

Nov 4th, 2009 - Philly

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COLUMBUS, Ohio - Developers of four new Ohio casinos looked eagerly to the future Wednesday, even as opponents concocted plans to stymie their efforts and surrounding states braced for economic losses.

Penn National Gaming Inc. president Dan Wilmott showed off the site where a 300,000-square-foot Hollywood Casino-Columbus employing 2,000 people is expected to materialize by the end of 2012.

"I know there's been a lot of things said by the opposition, a lot of mistruths, a lot of blatant lies about what the casino will bring to the city of Columbus, to the state of Ohio," he said. "I can assure you that we're going to develop here, we're going to create these jobs, and we're going to get people back to work."

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