Slot Machine Relocation

Wheeling Island Racetrack and Gaming Center in Wheeling, West Virginia is moving its slot machines out of the Ohio River flood plain. They are going to relocate their slot machines and expand with an $8 million project. The new slot machine casino will be 16,000 square feet, and they are planning on opening May 2007.

They are planning on starting on the slot machine casino in the next two weeks, with groundbreaking set for this Wednesday. The City Planning Commission has already approved the plans for the new slot machine casino, as well as the new parking garage, kitchen space and a covered, heated walkway for their charter bus guests. They will be relocating 390 of their 2,400 slot machines. 

They will need to hire more people to staff the larger slot machine casino – they already employ over 950. This will be the slot machine casino’s third major expansion in the past three years. The racetrack is owned and operated by Wheeling Island Gaming, Inc. which is a subsidy of Sportsystems Corp.

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