Pennsylvania state gambling enforcement agents joined community leaders Wednesday in recommending renewal of Wind Creek Bethlehem’s casino license to continue operating for another five years.
During a relicensing hearing in Bethlehem’s Town Hall meeting room, the casino detailed contributions that have included over $2 billion in state and local funding and the employment of 1,667 people with compensation totaling $1.2 billion since Las Vegas Sands Corp. opened the facility as Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem in May 2009.
Alabama’s Poarch Band of Creek Indians purchased the casino atop a former Bethlehem Steel Corp. brownfield site for $1.3 billion in 2019 and has invested $242.8 million in capital spending, officials said Wednesday.
