Jan Jones
Jan Jones
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Harrah's is excited about the opportunity to join the Pittsburgh community. As the largest and most established company in gaming, Harrah's has a long track record of attracting tourists and business to communities across the nation. Station Square already attracts 2.5 million visitors annually; we're confident we can take business to an even greater level by marketing Pittsburgh to millions of loyal Harrah's customers across the nation. The experience of this team and the quality of this location are second to none, and create the greatest potential to maximize tax revenues and economic benefits for this community and this state.
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I really do think this is the cleanest way for the public, with full disclosure, on all of the elements to make a decision, and I have confidence ... they will make a reasoned decision.
capital higher less lower matter simply tax
Higher tax rates, you get more casino, less resort. Lower tax rates, you get more resort, with a casino. It's simply a matter of capital investment.
casino certainly exclusive given mayor operate preferred press talk
We certainly would have preferred that the mayor talk to us before he went to the press given that we have the exclusive right to operate a land-based casino in New Orleans.
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Yes, we are considering it. Whether we'll get involved, I don't know. We think consolidation is the future of the industry.
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We're just watching the legislation. We're not lobbying it. We're not negotiating.
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We'll talk about some of the infrastructure questions that we think people would like more information on, details of why the project would be good, background information on the company, conceptual information on what we think the property might look like, how we'll go about getting public input on the design so that it's compatible with the area, those kinds of things.