Two major rivals in Pennsylvania’s gaming industry clashed Wednesday in a high-stakes battle over Philadelphia investor Ira M. Lubert’s bid to open a mini-casino just a few miles from the Pennsylvania State University campus.
The Pennsylvania Gaming Board, meeting in Harrisburg on Wednesday, heard Cordish Gaming’s challenge of Lubert’s application to locate a satellite casino in the Nittany Mall, just outside State College. Cordish, which last year opened the Live! Casino and Hotel Philadelphia in South Philly, was the runner-up in the 2020 auction, which Lubert won with a $10,000,101 bid.
Cordish’s subsidiary, Stadium Casino RE, on Wednesday sought to intervene in the license application, saying that Lubert’s application violates state law because other undisclosed investors were behind the bid. Lubert’s attorney denies it.
