Opposition to Casino in Centre County

This is not a positive or attractive addition to our community and it's certainly not anything essential for Centre County.

Please do not allow a casino to be built in our community. It is not the right kind of activity to promote and the ill effects that it brings to the surrounding area are not worth the investment that it brings.

Our community is deserving of positivity, health, and a lasting impact that will bring GOOD to the area. A casino is a poor excuse to prey on those who have little and are hoping for more, who will ultimately hurt themselves and develop bigger problems. How about a homeless shelter? A center for reintegration of previously convicted felons into the working community? A women's reproductive health clinic? The list of positive possibilities are endless, don't sully our community with more greed.

The community will incur the high costs of all the socio-economic factors associated with gambling: addictions of all kinds; family break up and the inducement of our students to get on (more) addiction pathways here in the community. There are absolutely no good reasons for allowing this, if one has the community, rather than company, interests at heart. Look at other communities of our size that have allowed this to happen.

We don’t need a casino in Happy Valley! It will make us “sad valley” to see a casino at the Nittany Mall. A casino is not a good use of that space

We don't need this. We have enough issues and being a college town, this would be detrimental. Bring in something beneficial, not a casino!

It's not a good fit for our small community, and seems likely to separate people from their money in a way that depresses our economy rather than strengthening it.

Terrible idea. Gambling is an addiction

Please do not allow a casino to be built in our community. It is not the right kind of activity to promote near a college campus.

Yes, let’s throw gambling into the mix of vices those in our community, particularly young adult students, are struggling with.

We have enough vices in Centre County especially with the local PSU population. We don’t need to add gambling at a casino.

I oppose the Casino occupied in State College. It will make a disastrous impact on PSU enrollment and the State College economy in the long term. No parent wants their child to live and study at a college close to Casino.

Please don't put a casino at the Nittany Mall . We don't have the infrastructure to handle the aftermath -- the addiction, the crime, the traffic, the garishness that come with it. Our sleepy valley isn't a Vegas strip or a boardwalk kind of town and we want to keep it this way. It is a great place to raise kids, to grow up and grow old Just as it is. What we need is to attract affordable retail stores geared toward the regular working class families in this town. We don't need more taking money from the locals through gambling and all that goes with it.

No to a casino

Isn't it enough that people can now piss away their money using their phones and online casinos? This area needs a casino about as much as it needs a bordello. Please vote no.

No to the casino.

I do not want a casino to occupy the former Macy's space. A casino would be detrimental to our community here in State College. An anchor department store would better serve our community.

Lets keep gambling and its associated vices out of our community

I request that the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board NOT endorse/permit a new casino at the Nittany Mall in State College. I live nearby and don't want a casino in our town

NO CASINO