Opposition to Casino in Centre County

Please don’t ruin our community!

I am opposed to this casino in our area. I have personally seen lives and business ruined from gambling!

I strongly oppose and will continue to oppose the casino.

NO good can come from this.

Please do not approve a gaming license for the proposed casino at the Nittany Mall. It will introduce or exacerbate a number of significant problems in our community. While a casino may create some jobs, it is not worth the damage it is almost certain to do to existing businesses (especially small ones) in the county. Overall, it will lead to a decrease in economic opportunity in our county. (I've lived in State College for 20 years this August.)

I do not want any gambling in our town or my township period.

Casino will be detrimental to our town and community with high population of students and seniors.

We do no need or want a casino here! Casinos are detrimental to the health and well-being of the communities they exist within. They siphon off money from existing businesses and bring in an undesirable mentality which is harmful to young people, university students and those who can least afford to participate. The only real winners are the casino owners. PLEASE do not allow this! It will be a negative for our vulnerable community.

A casino in this location creates a dangerous environment wherein addiction is already high. There are multiple universities near the proposed location, not only Penn State, and this demographic is particularly vulnerable to risky decision making.

Research shows that casinos do not benefit local communities, and in fact can have negative impacts. State College does not need a casino.

I agree that the casino would overall be detrimental to the well-being of our community

This is drinking poison to quench a thirst.

A casino will not add positively to the quality of life in our community...

This would be bad for local businesses. Where I previously lived, when a casino got built in town, all the local businesses started tanking as the casino was siphoning money out of the community.

I strongly oppose this casino as it will be detrimental to the community.

I strongly oppose the construction of a casino in this college town. It will ruin its reputation!

I feel a casino is not needed or desired in our community.

We do not want a casino in State College! We want cheaper housing!

A former employee of a casino, I can verify that nothing they promise will come true; only during the honeymoon period will they strive to look like an honest, community-concerned enterprise. If you look at the statistics, it is verifiable that every area where casinos enter suffers a downturn in community social and financial quality, an excessively high rate of gambling addiction, and the crime rate increases (including domestic violence due to the family tragedies gambling causes). To think, with the PSU student population, you would even consider this is frightening. I worked in the upper levels of security- it is never an honest enterprise, no matter what a beautiful face they put on it. No, I am not a former disgruntled employee who was fired or disciplined; I simply couldn't take working for an organization that puts profits over people, without exception.

We do not need or want a casino in State College!