A neighborhood planning board in New Hampshire on Monday will think about a proposal to construct a charitable gaming on line casino. It’ll additionally embody a restaurant.
A scenic web site in Lebanon, N.H., pictured above. The city is contemplating approving a charitable on line casino. (Picture: Keene Sentinel)
Lebanon, N.H., planning board members will talk about the proposed gaming property on the web site previously housing Gerrish Honda.
The board should schedule a web site go to, in addition to maintain a public listening to on the proposal.
Domestically, the road is named Miracle Mile.
If the undertaking is accredited, it is going to embody a gaming area and a 41-seat restaurant/bar, the Valley Information, a New Hampshire information group, reported.
The gaming ground could have 111 digital gaming gadgets and 90 gaming tables, based on the proposal.
As envisioned, it might embody 17,335-square toes on the primary ground. There additionally could be a 1,360-square-foot mezzanine.
The undertaking would use the present constructing. It’s presently vacant.
The on line casino would imply a rise in visitors within the space, Engineering Ventures, a Lebanon-based guide, predicted.
Web site Was Automotive Dealership
The property, a former Honda dealership, was bought in 2016 to Gengras Motor Vehicles, a Connecticut-based auto vendor.
Its principal is Jonathan Gengras. Gengras and Stefan Huba, a guide who makes a speciality of creating casinos, are the builders of the undertaking.
Gengras will stay the proprietor of the Miracle Mile property. He’ll lease it to Huba, the report mentioned.
If given approvals, the on line casino should donate 35% of proceeds to charitable nonprofits underneath New Hampshire regulation.
Video games can embody poker, bingo, lottery, keno, and raffles, the Valley Information mentioned. Additionally allowed are roulette, blackjack, and digital slot machines, the report added.
The charitable organizations have to be accredited by the New Hampshire Lottery Fee.
The present record of permitted organizations consists of over 12,000 non-profits.
Lebanon already has one charitable on line casino. It’s known as the Lebanon Poker Room & On line casino. It opened in 2018. It affords poker, blackjack, roulette, and a few 34 slot machines.
Lebanon is situated close to the New Hampshire-Vermont border.
Harmony Proposal
In the meantime, in Harmony, N.H., some 58 miles southeast of Lebanon, a deliberate charitable gaming advanced is prone to be reviewed by Harmony Planning Board members subsequent month, the Harmony Monitor newspaper reported.
It’ll embody a on line casino, lodge, and restaurant. It’ll characteristic a 24,000-square-foot gaming ground.
That may have 634 seats. Plans additionally name for an 8,500-square-foot restaurant and brew-pub. It could have seating for about 150.
A lodge and occasion middle could be developed later, based on present plans.
The developer is Andy Sanborn, who owns the Draft Sports activities Bar & Grill and the Harmony On line casino, a charitable on line casino in Harmony. He’s a former New Hampshire state senator. Within the Senate, he was chair of the Commerce, Well being/Human Providers and Methods and Means committees. He additionally ran for Congress.
Sanborn predicts the brand new on line casino would result in over 250 jobs. It’ll additionally enhance native tourism.
However Bruce Carri, who lives close to the location of the deliberate on line casino, has been frightened about elevated visitors, the Monitor mentioned.
Provided that this can be a gateway from the east of town, I’m undecided it’s the very best use of the location to have a on line casino be the very first thing folks see after they are available in from the Seacoast,” Carri was quoted by the Monitor.
“It’s not the very best picture for the Capital Metropolis that we should always need to convey.”
