{"id":11128,"date":"2012-05-18T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11128"},"modified":"2012-05-18T07:11:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T11:11:26","slug":"changes-to-ontarios-gaming-industry-kills-fort-eries-bid-for-slots-also-how-it-affects-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/changes-to-ontarios-gaming-industry-kills-fort-eries-bid-for-slots-also-how-it-affects-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to Ontario&#8217;s gaming industry kills Fort Erie&#8217;s bid for slots (also how it affects Niagara Falls)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2012\/05\/17\/changes-to-ontarios-gaming-industry-kills-fort-eries-bid-for-slots\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sweeping changes to Ontario&#8217;s gaming industry unveiled Thursday has essentially quashed Fort Erie&#8217;s bid to take over its now defunct slots facility.<\/p>\n<p>The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation is asking for private-sector operators to step up and express interest in 29 separate &#8220;gaming zones&#8221; across the province.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Erie did not make the cut.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is not a zone for Fort Erie so, sadly, any type of proposal that would come from Fort Erie wouldn&#8217;t be addressed,&#8221; said OLG spokesperson Tony Bitonti.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rule is one facility per zone and, if you don&#8217;t have a zone, you don&#8217;t have a facility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>According to the OLG, Niagara Falls would have two zones that could offer a maximum of 5,000 slot machines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Literally, Fallsview and Casino Niagara are each their own zone,&#8221; Bitonti said.<\/p>\n<p>There are approximately 4,600 slot machines between Niagara&#8217;s two gaming facilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Niagara, it&#8217;s status quo,&#8221; Bitonti said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Sweeping changes to Ontario&#8217;s gaming industry unveiled Thursday has essentially quashed Fort Erie&#8217;s bid to take over its now defunct slots facility. The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation is asking for private-sector operators to step up and express interest in 29 separate &#8220;gaming zones&#8221; across the province. Fort Erie did&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,2],"tags":[522,58,157,570,7427,7426,41,523,521,352,7126],"class_list":["post-11128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-casinos-and-gaming","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-casino-niagara","tag-fallsview","tag-fallsview-casino","tag-fort-erie","tag-gaming-facilities","tag-gaming-zones","tag-niagara-falls","tag-olg","tag-ontario-lottery-and-gaming","tag-ontario-lottery-and-gaming-corporation","tag-slots"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11129,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11128\/revisions\/11129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}