Penn National Gaming Inc. will publicly inform the Ohio State Racing
Commission Feb. 10 of its plans to relocate two Ohio racetracks should
the state’s tracks get video lottery terminals.
PNGI will not request license transfers, officials said, but rather
explain its rationale for relocation. The two tracks—Beulah Park near
Columbus and Raceway Park in Toledo—are near sites at which PNGI will
build two full-scale casinos.
The company has been looking for “underserved” markets in Ohio, and
has settled on Dayton, a city in the state’s fourth-largest metropolitan
market. The Beulah Park license for Thoroughbred racing would move to
that area, which is located north of Cincinnati and southwest of
Columbus off Interstate 75.
PNGI has targeted a 125-site at the abandoned Delphi Automotive plant in the northern part of Dayton.
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