Charitable Casino Plan for Empty Grocery Store Moves Forward in Conway, N.H.

The townsfolk of Conway is the modish community inward New Hampshire to okay a building allow for a sympathetic casino. The allow was sanctioned finally month, the Conway Daily Sun, a local newspaper, reported this week.

The local permit is required to place a play locus at the planned location: a former foodstuff lay in called Shurfine.

The allow allows A.W. Rose Construction of Manchester, N.H. to “renovate the former foodstuff stock and adjoining rooms into (a) sports pub with good-hearted gaming,” the story said.

Last November, Shurfine Plaza was purchased for most $5 meg by Manchester, N.H. developer Dick Anagnost. He is manager of New Hampshire’s A.W. Rose Realty.

In 2019, he was presumption a large-hearted casino permit from the New Hampshire Lottery Commission for the Conway site. The business organisation is called inwards a deed, “Conway Poker Room and Casino, LLC.,” the account said.

Developer Runs Four Casinos

Anagnost currently runs large-hearted casinos in the New Hampshire towns of Keene, Manchester, Dover, and Lebanon. The operations raised $3,876,284 for New Hampshire non-profits inwards 2022, the Sun said.

Under country law, a benevolent casino must donate 35% of proceeds to kindly nonprofits below New Hampshire down requirements.

“The business tin can only if unfastened if it has a sympathetic system apiece dark that is vetted by the land Attorney General’s power as a non-profit-making 501 (3)-c,” Gospel According to John Eastman, Conway town manager, told the Sun.

The plan would be to be surface trine to four nights a hebdomad and apiece nighttime to have a charitable surgery they are gaming for.”

There is a demarcation on what games are offered at the casino. In New Hampshire, local voters must approve sports betting or keno operations. Such forms of gambling were rejected inward previous Conway townspeople meetings tetrad times.

In 2021, Anagnost said he wanted to unresolved a Hellene eatery that included a sports bar and kindly gaming inward the 12,000-square-foot space, the Sun said.

But the young edifice Trachinotus falcatus does not honorable mention anything nigh a Grecian restaurant, the account added. This week, a representative for the project, said some kind of eating house is proposed as portion of the project.

Also mired in the contrive to open up the casino is Peninsula Pacific Ocean Entertainment, the Sun reported. It is a Los Angeles-based gaming company.

The Conway Board of Selectmen testament discuss the gambling casino on February 21. Conway is located close the Maine-New Hampshire down border.

Other Casino Projects

Other New Hampshire communities are also considering sympathetic casino proposals. In Lebanon, a gaming attribute was proposed at the land site formerly housing Gerrish Honda.

The gaming floor would experience 111 electronic gaming devices and 90 gaming tables, according to the proposal.

As envisioned, it would include 17,335-square feet on the first floor. There also would be a 1,360-square-foot mezzanine.

A young sympathetic gambling casino in Concord, N.H. was presumption conditional approval lastly month. The town’s Planning Board conditionally approved the project’s initial phase. That includes a 24,000-square-foot gaming room, and an 8,500-square-foot eatery and brewpub.