The way these groups make it sound, Pittsburgh will be the next Atlantic City. Tourists will flock to Pittsburgh to gamble in our shiny new casinos. We'll have Las Vegas on the Mon An'at!! I hate to say this but people aren't going to come to PITTSBURGH to hit it big. Pittsburgh is not on the list of favored tourist spots right now, and having a slots casino won't increase the odds of it happening anytime soon, pun intended. The majority of the people who will be playing here are locals who'll no longer have to hightail it down to West Virginia to blow their cash, at least until The Mountaineer State decides to counter by introducing table games. Are their enough people in Pittsburgh/Allegheny County/Western PA who will form the gambling base that will provide the steady income these casinos will need to turn a profit? What happens when the newness wears off after a year? A casino that does not have a steady turnover of players is a casino that isn't making money. What assurance do we have from any of these groups that they will be here for the long haul even after the honeymoon period is over? Casinos have popped up like mushrooms on a warm summer night in towns all over the country and have disappeared just as quickly when the management couldn't find new gamblers to supplement the regular players. We can hope that the building of a casino will also spur development of entertainment and other types of businesses, which would attract more companies to consider relocating to Pittsburgh, but then the city government will have to make doing business in the city easier and more efficient, and Pittsburgh does not do efficiency well. There are a lot of folks betting the salvation of the region on the slots. For their sake I hope it all comes up cherries.