Sands Pennsylvania will continue operations

Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem was expected to be sold but renewed its licence instead.

US.- The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has agreed with Las Vegas Sands on renewing the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem’s gaming licence for five more years. The Pennsylvania casino is under agreement to be sold and now the transaction will have an assured gaming licence to operate over 3,053 slot machines, 189 table games and 26 poker tables, as confirmed by the American casino company.

Las Vegas Sands will continue the operations of its 150,700-foot casino. Meanwhile, at a public hearing in Bethlehem’s Town Hall, President and CEO Brian Carr, said the new offerings of the Pennsylvania casino will be available by May this year after renewing the licence with the local casino authority.

“Las Vegas Sands is pleased and proud of what we have been able to accomplish over the last nine years,” Carr told the board. “We look forward to the future and very much appreciate the opportunity to apply for this renewal.”

“We are a publicly traded company. We have a fiduciary responsibility to our shareholders. There was not a tax on the books that required us to make the payments,” Carr added. “I will say this: We never said that we weren’t going to pay it. We actually accrued it during the time that it was ruled unconstitutional. And the second that the Legislature got it fixed and got the law back on the books, it was paid.”