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misskitty
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Crime jumps around casino
Sheriff: Spike in first 6 weeks is no surprise
Deputy sheriffs have responded to an uptick in crime in western Franklin County in the six weeks since the Hollywood Casino Columbus opened.The casino, at 200 Georgesville Rd., is in Columbus but abuts areas patrolled by the county sheriff’s office.
Columbus police say incidents there have been unremarkable, but Sheriff Zach Scott said the increase his deputies have seen was expected. “If the population increases, crime increases,” Scott said.
In the roughly 20-square-mile area just west of the casino, deputies took 206 reports, including 126 assaults, in the casino’s first 44 days.
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mrpoppinzs
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Lol...the headline refers to a 20-square mile area west of the casino. (fyi The Casino is 6 miles west of High and Broad in downtown).
at the end is this:
Columbus police haven’t seen a significant amount of crime in or around the casino, according to Sgt. Rich Weiner, a police spokesman
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Graybeak
Hunky Town
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Why let a little thing like facts get in the way of a sensationalist story?
In the roughly 20-square-mile area just west of the casino, deputies took 206 reports, including 126 assaults, in the casino’s first 44 days. During the same period last year, deputies took 162 reports, including 43 assault reports.
car break-ins dropped steeply, from 66 to 15.
Franklin Township Police Chief Jim Timko said his nine officers and sergeant haven’t seen any “ increase in business” so far near the new Columbus casino.
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Coremodels
Really close to Explorer's Club.
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Yeah, my favorite part was the comment from the special duty officer spokesman: “We see incidents much worse than these at other special-duty details”
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mrpoppinzs
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Ohio’s gaming industry has state nearly saturated, Fitch finds
Business First by Evan Weese, Web coordinator
Date: Wednesday, December 19, 2012, 11:56am ESTOhio’s ultra-competitive casino and gaming industry is growing to a point where it’s able to meet all of the state’s gambling demand, according to an industry outlook report from Fitch Ratings.
Revenue will continue to grow as Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati opens in March, and more racinos join the fray across the state, but they’ll all see “considerable cannibalization from existing Ohio gaming facilities and gaming facilities in neighboring states,” Alex Bumazhny, associate director for Gaming, Lodging & Leisure at Fitch, said in an email.
READ MORE: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2012/12/19/ohios-gaming-industry-has-state.htmlPosted 5 months ago # -
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Ohio Schools To Get $38 Million In First Round Of Casino Revenue
January 9, 2013
by The Associated PressThe state says Ohio schools are getting nearly $38 million in the first chunk of casino-tax revenue.
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Columbus, Toledo casinos off to sluggish start for Penn National
Feb 1, 2013, 11:46am EST
Jeff Bell
Staff reporter - Business FirstPenn National Gaming Inc. plans to boost marketing for its Columbus casino after company executives acknowledged the $400 million gambling house and a sister casino in Toledo haven’t performed as well as hoped in their early months of operations.
READ MORE: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2013/02/01/columbus-toledo-casinos-off-to.htmlPosted 3 months ago # -
Walker
The KLD / Downtown / Gay Street
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While they're not all open yet, I can't help but wonder if the plan to build four casinos in Ohio and expect them to achieve a certain amount of profitability has been somewhat thwarted by the umpteen racinos that are popping up like crazy. There's five or six of them in the works now:
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InnerCore
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Schoolboy said:
Honestly, the place is just too expensive when it comes to the table games. They are charging Vegas prices and I feel it is costing them a lot of business.Can't speak for all, but I still drive to Wheeling for the $10 minimum tables.
Yeah, I stopped in with friends and the minimum bet was $25. It would seem to me at that rate you're only going to get serious gamblers and not a casual people hanging out with friends.
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AlanBarber
Columbus
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Schoolboy said:
I had no idea they had tables in Vegas for under $25???Honestly, that's why I've never been. Hmmmmm....
Weekends most tables at the big locations will be $25 but weekdays many will be $15. Once you go off to the smaller casinos it's pretty easy to find tons of $15 and if you look hard enough some $5 tables.
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