{"id":256128,"date":"2026-07-31T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T06:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256128\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T06:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T06:30:22","slug":"what-do-you-want-to-see-at-presque-isle-downs-casino-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256128\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Want to See at Presque Isle Downs &#038; Casino? | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we know <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.erienewsnow.com\/news\/churchill-downs-puts-presque-isle-downs-casino-up-for-sale\/article_07ad3382-3c7f-452b-b72f-ff384d01acdf.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Presque Isle Downs &amp; Casino is up for sale<\/a>, we talked with Erieites to see what they would like to see from new ownership.<\/p>\n<p>Erie resident Jeffrey Johnson is hoping for it to become an entertainment venue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to get the people that would not normally go there and you can do that by making it more of a destination spot,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>Millcreek Township resident RJ Zonna told us that he would like to see an extended racing season and more horses running.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe weather is good enough here from May to October that you can run the horses and I would love to see a bigger field because typically they have five or six horses running and it is hard to make money when the favorite seems to win all the time,\u201d Zonna said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that we know Presque Isle Downs &amp; Casino is up for sale, we talked with Erieites to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,296,139],"class_list":["post-256128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-local","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256128","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=256128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}