Board gives conditional OK to Bangor slot license

Friday, Nov. 5, 2004 | 9:25 a.m.

AUGUSTA, Maine -- By a 5-0 vote Thursday, Maine's Gambling Control Board granted Penn National Gaming Inc. a conditional license to operate slot machines at Bangor's harness racing track.

The Pennsylvania-based company must still get a full license before it can operate a racino at the Bangor track, but a senior vice president for the company, Steven Snyder, called Thursday's action "a great next step for the project."

Snyder said the company hopes to break ground for the racino at Bangor Historic Track next spring and open it by mid-2006.

Before it grants a full license, the gambling board wants the Legislature to pass a law allowing it to keep Penn National financial and personnel information it must review confidential. Penn National also wants such a law passed.

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