{"id":225512,"date":"2026-06-23T04:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T04:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225512\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T04:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T04:01:18","slug":"gm-departs-less-than-two-months-after-pennsylvania-casinos-opening-cdc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225512\/","title":{"rendered":"GM departs less than two months after Pennsylvania casino\u2019s opening \u2013 CDC Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a class=\"back-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2190 Back to Newsroom<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\nMonday, June 22, 2026 7:26 PM<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/delete-16-375x225.jpg\" class=\"no-lazy \" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image aggregated from StateCollege.com.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Generic-Author.jpg\"\/>Geoff Rushton, StateCollege.com\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Email, LinkedIn, and more<\/p>\n<p>A top executive who helped shepherd the development of the Happy Valley Casino and led its operations has departed his position less than two months after the College Township venue\u2019s opening.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Pearson is no longer general manager of the category 4 casino casino located at the Nittany Mall in what majority owner Saratoga Casino Holdings described on Monday as a planned move.<\/p>\n<p>The company credited Pearson as \u201can integral part of the planning and opening of Happy Valley Casino.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/out\/14545\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"notrack\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"QCI-web-220301-1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/QCI-web-220301-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"720\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the outset, the plan included Eric transitioning to new opportunities following the successful launch of the property,\u201d Saratoga wrote in a statement to StateCollege.com.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statecollege.com\/articles\/business\/general-manager-departs-less-than-2-months-after-happy-valley-casinos-opening\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Article continues on StateCollege.com\u00a0\u2b95<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statecollege.com\/articles\/business\/general-manager-departs-less-than-2-months-after-happy-valley-casinos-opening\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"osButton button\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\t\t\t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2190 Back to Newsroom Monday, June 22, 2026 7:26 PM Image aggregated from StateCollege.com. Geoff Rushton, StateCollege.com Email,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,5332,35794,41568],"class_list":["post-225512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-personnel","tag-saratoga-casino-holdings","tag-sc-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}