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Penn National awarded license for Mass. slots

By Bob Salsberg
Published February 28, 2014 7:12pm ET
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Penn National awarded license for Mass. slots
This artist's rendition released in Oct 2013 by Penn National Gaming shows the company's casino at its proposed location in Plainville, Mass. The Massachusetts Gaming Commission voted by a 3-2 margin to offer a license to the company for the state's first and only slots parlor with a maximum of 1,250 slot machines, but no table games. (AP Photo/Penn National Gaming) | AP

BOSTON (AP) — Officials of Penn National Gaming, the first company to hold a license for expanded gambling in Massachusetts, said Friday they would begin construction planning next week at the Plainridge harness racetrack with an eye toward opening a slots parlor there by next spring.

The state gambling commission voted formally on Friday to grant the five-year operating license to Wyomissing-Pa.-based Penn National after the company agreed to 18 mostly technical conditions attached to the award.

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