Gambling-oriented residents of the Shippensburg area of south-central Pennsylvania have been waiting a long time for a mini-casino to open near them, and they will have to be patient a little longer.

Parx Casino in Bucks County, which will operate the mini-casino in Cumberland County as a smaller, satellite facility some 150 miles away, has announced on its Facebook page that the new venue will open in February. It previously was to open late this year, then had the timetable pushed back to January.

No specific date was identified for the opening, but whenever it is in February, it will be about four years from when Parx’s parent firm, Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment Inc., presented a winning bid of $8.1. million at a Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board auction for the rights to develop the mini-casino.