Live! Hotel and Casino Philadelphia is a planned casino in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, In July , the Board opened a new round of applications for the second Philadelphia casino license. Cordish and Greenwood began evaluating sites.
Facebook Twitter. The construction project is one of the largest ongoing in Pennsylvania and will give the state its 13 th casino. The Cordish Companies, which owns the Live! Gary Rotstein Gary is a longtime journalist, having spent three decades covering gambling, state government, and other issues for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in addition to stints as managing editor of the Bedford Pa. Something went wrong. The new reports state that progress on the project can continue only temporarily, and workers on the hotel-casino may be kept away due to health and safety concerns at the site. The Live! Meanwhile, radio station WHYY reported that only about 50 workers were on the job at the block-long site this week, instead of the that would be there normally. There have been health concerns because of two workers who have tested positive for COVID infection. Spotlight PA, a statewide news-gathering operation, reported that the state had clarified that work could continue only to enable a safe shutdown of operations. Comments are closed.{/INSERTKEYS}{/PARAGRAPH} Twitter Email. Those appear unlikely to open later this year, as had been scheduled. Visit Review. Twitter RSS. Subscribe and get alerts on new PA online gambling sites and bonus codes. We respect your privacy and take protecting it seriously. Thank you for subscribing. {PARAGRAPH}{INSERTKEYS}It was previously reported that Gilbane had obtained a waiver from the state Department of Community and Economic Development entitling it to continue work on the project despite an order that non-essential businesses shut down during the COVID pandemic. Gary is a longtime journalist, having spent three decades covering gambling, state government, and other issues for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in addition to stints as managing editor of the Bedford Pa. The coronavirus scare has halted construction work on two mini-casinos in central Pennsylvania planned by Penn National Gaming.