Blatstein will have competition, of course, but barring an unlikely, underwhelmed response by state

Collections Casino Monica airline tickets cheap last minute for student Yant Kinney: He's making a bet on an anti-casino casino October 29, 2012 | By Monica Yant Kinney, Inquirer Columnist The Provence, not your typical betting parlor. I want a place I can hang out with (Tower Investment )
The man who whipped up an Italian Piazza in Northern Liberties wants to transform the old Inquirer building into a lush, luxurious urban Versailles with not one, but two private clubs for rooftop swimming. He's calling his legacy-making airline tickets cheap last minute for student venture The Provence . If you can't pronounce it his way, you can't come in and play.
I'm kidding about the entrance exam. But Blatstein is serious about convincing airline tickets cheap last minute for student the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board that a glamorous (or garish?) anti-casino deserves the state's last license to mint money.
The "entertainment resort," as he calls the confection, will span 650,000 square feet, with only 17 percent devoted to gaming. He envisions roughly 3,300 slot machines and 150 table games, with no room for expansion.
The casino is the economic engine necessary airline tickets cheap last minute for student to drive the $700 million project, airline tickets cheap last minute for student but to hear Blatstein describe it, the gaming area is already giving him a headache long before patrons start smoking their heads off as they lose their shirts.
Having airline tickets cheap last minute for student written dozens of generally cynical columns about casinos, problem gambling, and smoking's choke hold over the industry, I'm hardly an objective judge of Blatstein's dream. Especially since he's plunking baccarat tables in the newsroom where I used to work.
Politicians insist Philadelphia needs a second casino. Leaders airline tickets cheap last minute for student in both parties already seem smitten with The Provence 's elevated botanical garden and pocket parks on Vine Street Expressway ramps often occupied by the homeless.
Blatstein will have competition, of course, but barring an unlikely, airline tickets cheap last minute for student underwhelmed response by state regulators reviewing the applications, locals will eventually be treated to another 24/7 temple of gloom.
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