Live! Casino Pittsburgh Parking Garage is Site of Armed Confrontation
Posted on: January 4, 2023, 01:02h.
Last updated on: January 4, 2023, 01:25h.
An intoxicated man was charged with several counts after he allegedly pointed a firearm at someone in the parking garage of Live! Casino Pittsburgh. The incident took place early on New Year’s Day on the Greensburg, Pa. gaming property.
The 55-year-old, unnamed Marianna, Pa. suspect got into a fight with the second man. As the confrontation escalated, the suspect pulled out the gun.
It appears the suspect was under the influence of alcohol.
Police responded and investigated the situation. Later, the suspect was charged with assault, making terroristic threats, harassment, disorderly conduct, and public drunkenness, KDKA, a local TV station, reported.
Police didn’t disclose what statements were made which led to the terroristic threats charge. It appears no shots were fired. There were no serious injuries, based on initial news reports.
Local police were notified about the confrontation between the two men at about 1:30 a.m. on Sunday.
A man will face charges after police said he pulled a gun on another man in the Live! Casino Pittsburgh parking garage. https://t.co/rwWmSBZGcJ
— KDKA (@KDKA) January 4, 2023
Two-Year Anniversary
Live! Casino Pittsburgh recently celebrated its two-year operating anniversary as a mini-casino. The casino is a satellite venue of the company’s larger Live! Casino Hotel Philadelphia in that city’s Stadium District.
The Pittsburgh casino has some 750 slot machines, 40 table games, and a new poker room with seven tables. Live! Casino Pittsburgh has added a 7,000-square-foot events center. It is called The Venue at Live! Casino.
The Venue holds up to 350 guests for seated receptions. For concerts and entertainment, the space can hold more than 700 people.
Some two years ago, Live! Casino Pittsburgh opened in a former Bon-Ton department store.
In December 2021, Cordish announced it was selling the physical assets of Live! Casino Pittsburgh to Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. (GLPI), the real estate investment trust of Caesars Entertainment.
The deal lets Cordish rent Live! Pittsburgh’s operations from GLPI for a minimum of the next 39 years.
Dispute Over State College Site
The Cordish Companies is a Baltimore-based gaming and hospitality conglomerate. Beyond operating the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia gaming sites, the company wanted to open another Pennsylvania venue in State College.
The desired site was the former Macy’s store at the Nittany Mall. The retail shopping complex is less than two miles from the Penn State campus, where more than 40K undergraduate students live and study.
Bally’s Pennsylvania, LLC, a fully owned subsidiary of Rhode Island-based Bally’s Corporation, also wants to place a casino in the former Macy’s department store at the Nittany Mall. It would be called Bally’s Pennsylvania.
But the rival Cordish Companies argues that Bally’s should not be allowed to operate a casino in State College. Cordish claims that Ira Lubert, who was the high bidder during the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board’s casino auction round in September 2020, orchestrated an illicit bid by partnering with Bally’s before submitting his winning $10 million offer.
Only land-based casinos and key individual investors in the state’s brick-and-mortar casinos qualified to bid during the 2020 auction, the company contended.?Lubert maintains a 3% ownership position in Rivers Casino Pittsburgh. Soon after securing College Township for his Category 4 casino development, Lubert announced a partnership with Bally’s to embark on what would be a $123 million development.
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We understand that there are those who wish to use the high profile Penn State location to normalize the gaming industry. But this has already had the opposite effect: thousands of local residents have now been energized to become die-hard gaming industry critics. Moreover, apart from its legal flaws, the application for this State College site is tainted by its association with a Penn State trustee who played such a controversial role in the Second Mile scandal payouts. Penn State already has a target on its back. Mistakes and suspicions here inevitably go national overnight.
There's a future Bally's CHICAGO? At least no similar confrontations will take place there. Back to Pittsburgh, was the intoxicated and armed casino patron just leaving the casino or was he just arriving there?
We do not want problems like this with firearms due to a local casino. So, I hope everything will be done that is possible to keep a casino from opening in State College, PA. We do not want typical casino problems like this article mentions regarding firearms.
Just one moment here please. Pennsylvania land-based mini-casinos are supposed to be safe and fun. Armed confrontations are neither expected nor permissible. Signs will be posted now prohibiting such behavior. Some have said "Hey, at least it appears no shots were fired." An armed confrontation in State College would be just as unacceptable. More reason for the decision-makers in Pennsylvania to deny licensing a casino just down the road from Penn State University. Bally's Corporation should focus instead on their planned $1.7B casino resort in Chicago.