Friday, February 27, 2009

Strawbridges As Casino?

From the Courier-Post:
Foxwoods casino officials are eyeing a shuttered department store as another possible location for their downtown Philadelphia slots parlor.
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Foxwoods spokeswoman Maureen Garrity tells The Philadelphia Inquirer that the casino's investment group is looking at the former Strawbridge & Clothier store at Eighth and Market streets.
The current plan is to convert two floors of a store in the Gallery mall three blocks away into a 3,000-machine slots parlor.
Garrity didn't elaborate on why Foxwoods is looking at alternative space.
Foxwoods had planned to build on the Delaware River waterfront in South Philadelphia but agreed last fall to consider other sites amid outcries from community

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