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Started 2 years ago by Walker
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Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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A study was just completed by local research group CRP (Community Research Partners). Thought it was interesting enough to have its own thread outside of the normal Casino hubbub. A snippet:

CRP estimates that when a casino is built in Columbus, there may be over 22,000 new problem and pathological gamblers in Franklin County. CRP estimates that the ongoing, annual costs to address this increase in problem gambling could be $28 million, and the one time/lifetime costs for events such as divorce and bankruptcy could be $223 million. These social costs will be borne by human services systems, businesses, government, and individuals and families.

Summary & Full Report can be found here:

http://communityresearchpartners.org/14651.cfm?action=detail&id=146

(Note: Please try to keep this discussion on the topic of this specific study, thanks.)

Posted 2 years ago #
mstimple

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Yea, what happened to the "Casino Free" group. We haven't heard much from them after the the other group formed and the casino agreed to try and move locations. I'd still rather have no casino because of the above reasons among others but I guess moving it is better than nothing.

On a side note, just watched nbc4 news and they talked about this douche legislator from Youngstown who is threatening to tell his constituents to vote against any new amendment to move the casino if Y-town doesn't get a piece of the action. I grew up here, so typical of them to use extortion and seamy politics. No wonder no-one wants to live in this 3rd rate shit-hole anymore.

Posted 2 years ago #
adrock
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(Note: Please try to keep this discussion on the topic of this specific study, thanks.)

i like how the first reply had absolutely nothing to do with walker's post.

i don't see much substance in that report though. all they did was take the franklin county population and multiple it by .012 and .015 and added the numbers together and then came up with 10 different ways to say those numbers. the numbers aren't necessarily relevant to central ohio. if you take out the data from vegas and atlantic city, the national avgs of 1.2% and 1.5% would probably be far lower without those huge outliers skewing the results.
Posted 2 years ago #
Walker
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mstimple wrote >>
Yea, what hap...

You're in the wrong thread:

http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/topic/channel-6-says-penn-national-building-casino-on-the-west-side/page/13

Posted 2 years ago #
Core_Models
Columbus
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lol...we've agreed on very little during the casino debate adrock, but we do agree on this ;)

I think the dollar figures are fairly inflated in this report, and that the real figures will probably come pretty close to the amendment directed set aside to deal with addiction, more in the 10-15 million dollar range.

As I said in another thread also, I think this is a dangerous argument to start making, because you could also use this kind of data to make a case for turning the Arena District, Short North, or any other neighborhood "dry".

Posted 2 years ago #
byJody
Rural NW Columbus
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In my opinion, I think it would be hard to distill out what social problems are due to an Ohio Casino and what can be attributed to Ohio's sluggish economy due to the 'Great Recession' and dramatic decline of Ohio's manufacturing sector. We have some pretty big obstacles to tackle before Ohio is thriving again, hopefully we will have some of it solved before these facilities actually start operations in 2012.

It will be interesting to compare the economic and social impact effects in cities who wanted the Casinos (Cleve, Cincy) versus Columbus if we end up forced to have one here.

Posted 2 years ago #
Core_Models
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Why would there be a difference in social impact based on voting patterns?

Posted 2 years ago #
byJody
Rural NW Columbus
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Maybe I am in left field, I was just questioning if there might be more of a ripple effect (either good or bad) in the areas where they welcome a Casino.

Posted 2 years ago #
agtw31
columbus
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byJody wrote >>
Maybe I am in left field, I was just questioning if there might be more of a ripple effect (either good or bad) in the areas where they welcome a Casino.

if you're talking local business income,there won't be any.

if the casino is built on the west side,it will be just like Detroit's casinos.

When casino customers leave,they will get the hell out of dodge.

as for gambling problems,who knows.

Posted 2 years ago #
Core_Models
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byJody wrote >>
Maybe I am in left field, I was just questioning if there might be more of a ripple effect (either good or bad) in the areas where they welcome a Casino.

The study is 100% about the increase in problem gambling addictions within a radius of a casino, how they voted on issue 3 wouldn't play any role in that.

Posted 2 years ago #