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Pennsylvania Park Plan Gets Mixed Reviews

PENNSYLVANIA – As reported by Morning Call: "Freedom Park's backers feel their planned one-mile oval will fill a horse racing niche in Pennsylvania, but opponents told the Pennsylvania Horse Racing Commission Tuesday they'd just as soon see it fill a niche somewhere else.

"The three-member commission heard from nearly a dozen people at a public comment meeting, with all but two opposing the proposed thoroughbred racetrack — which could include a slots parlor — near Route 33 in northern Palmer Township, between Tatamy and Upper Nazareth Township. Increased traffic problems, the proximity to Nazareth Area Middle School, and other feared negative impacts on surrounding communities were common themes.

"…Freedom Park is being proposed by 100% Purses Inc., a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association.

"The racetrack is in the first phase of a planned $750 million development of nearly 500 acres. The track, with a combined indoor and outdoor seating capacity of about 10,000, would be built on about 240 acres north of Main Street and west of Route 33…"

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