loosen its gaming laws<\/a>.<\/p>\nThough the HRC isn’t required to dispense the final license, many are concerned Gettysburg’s largely untouched community, in terms of commercial development, is at stake.<\/p>\n
LeVan’s Charge<\/b><\/h2>\n
LeVan, a Gettysburg native who attended the town’s college, says he only has the area’s economic prosperity in mind.<\/p>\n
He explains that the location of his Gettysburg casino would be three miles from the actual sacred battlefields where upwards of 50,000 Union and Confederate soldiers lost their lives during the three-day engagement in 1863.<\/p>\n
That’s a farther distance, LeVan correctly points out, than Valley Forge Casino Resort is from Valley Forge National Historical Park.<\/p>\n
LeVan believes a gaming venue would only increase tourism and make Gettysburg a more appealing destination to a wider demographic.<\/p>\n
“As we’ve already seen in Pennsylvania, gaming and Pennsylvania’s rich historical heritage can co-exist quite nicely,” LeVan said in a statement this month. “We have an opportunity to do something special here.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Gettysburg casino proposal is facing strong\u00a0resistance\u00a0from locals, history buffs, and even the US National Park Service. Area businessman David LeVan, who owns Battlefield Harley-Davidson, a motorcycle dealership in Gettysburg, wants to build a horse racetrack and casino just three miles from the hallowed ground where the Civil War took a turning point in July […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":49357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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