{"id":1480,"date":"2012-09-12T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2014-09-08T19:10:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T19:10:09","slug":"gambling-issue-on-green-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/?p=1480","title":{"rendered":"Gambling Issue on Green Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rock Ohio Caesars has shown interest in relocating its Thistledown racetrack from North Randall to property owned by the Akron-Canton Airport in Green, Ohio. A deal between Rock Ohio Caesars and the state would allow the track to be relocated within 12 miles of the airport if it chooses.<\/p>\n<p>Gaming opponents argued that relocation to Green is a decision for the entire community, not one or two people, and have pursued a ballot issue which would ban gaming in Green. Organizers submitted 1,191 signatures to get the issue on the November ballot. A total of 901 signatures were needed, and 1,040 signatures were validated. As a result, voters in the city of Green will decide in November whether or not to ban casino gambling and horse racing.<\/p>\n<p>Even if relocation does occur, it won\u2019t be for quite some time. Rock Ohio Caesars has announced an $88 million makeover for the existing facility in North Randall. Included in the upgrade:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1,150 VLTs<\/li>\n<li>A new restaurant, two food court offerings, and a couple of lounges<\/li>\n<li>Repairs to the 2,300-space parking lot<\/li>\n<li>Upgrade to the existing restaurant that overlooks the track<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The new racino is expected to open at the current Thistledown location in North Randall next spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rock Ohio Caesars has shown interest in relocating its Thistledown racetrack from North Randall to property owned by the Akron-Canton Airport in Green, Ohio. A deal between Rock Ohio Caesars and the state would allow the track to be relocated within 12 miles of the airport if it chooses. Gaming opponents argued that relocation to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[25,27,28],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lottery","tag-horse-racing","tag-racino","tag-vlt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p87ey3-nS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}