![]() On the other hand, Retail Ventures, which bought the West Broad Plaza shopping center two months after the casino opened, planned to make the move before the casino. He told the Columbus Dispatch, “If not for the completion of the casino, there’s no compelling reason for businesses to invest here.” The casino’s influence on these developments are not quantifiable, but Chris Haydocy, president of the Weston Vision says they are there. Since it opened 41 businesses of all sizes have opened or expanded near the casino, according to Weston Vision, the economic development group for the West Side. Last year it ended with an adjusted gross revenue of $202 million. The $400 million Hollywood Casino, which opened October 2012, and is owned and operated by Penn National Gaming, has been the top producing of the Buckeye State’s four casinos. ![]() Although it’s been five years since the Hollywood Casino Columbus opened in Ohio’s largest city, the jury is still out on how much impact it has had on Columbus’s West Side, much less in the surrounding Franklin County.
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