{"id":227616,"date":"2026-06-25T07:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/227616\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T07:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:09:16","slug":"happy-valley-casino-in-central-pennsylvania-off-to-bumpy-start-cdc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/227616\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Valley Casino in central Pennsylvania off to bumpy start \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>\nWednesday, June 24, 2026 7:29 PM<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" class=\"no-lazy\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Happy-Valley-Casino-Pennsylvania-1000x600.jpg\"  \/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Photo:\u00a0SC Gaming and Saratoga Casino Holdings (courtesy)\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/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\"\/>Josh Moyer and Bret Pallotto, Centre Daily Times\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Email, LinkedIn, and more<\/p>\n<p>Two months after opening at the Nittany Mall, Happy Valley Casino is trailing Pennsylvania\u2019s four other mini-casinos in gaming revenue and has lost its top executive.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what local residents need to know about the casino\u2019s bumpy launch and what it means for College Township, the casino\u2019s home municipality that stands to receive 2% of slot machine revenue and 1% of table games revenue. Here are key takeaways:<\/p>\n<p>The casino generated roughly $3.6 million in gaming revenue during May, its first full month of operation, according to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.<\/p>\n<p><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/out\/14555\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"notrack\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"QCI-web-220301-6.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/QCI-web-220301-6.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"720\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If gaming revenue remains flat, College Township stands to receive just under $560,000 this year \u2014 well short of the $762,000 the township budgeted for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/amp.centredaily.com\/news\/local\/article316239283.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Article continues on Centre Daily Times\u00a0\u2b95<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/amp.centredaily.com\/news\/local\/article316239283.html\" 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 Wednesday, June 24, 2026 7:29 PM Photo:\u00a0SC Gaming and Saratoga Casino Holdings (courtesy) Josh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2127,28,30,29,5498,35794,41568],"class_list":["post-227616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-expansion","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-results","tag-saratoga-casino-holdings","tag-sc-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227616","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=227616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}