Anderson slots

From the IBJ:

Hoosier Park's plans to add 90,000 square feet to its building so it can install 2,000 new slot machines has been approved by a city zoning board.

The plan would more than double interior space of the pari-mutuel horse track.

Dick Donnelly, an Anderson consultant for Hoosier Park, told the Anderson Board of Zoning Appeals Aug. 20 that the group would be back in November with more details.

Yesterday's the Mayor's Meat and Potatoes newsletter touted Hoosier Park as part of the City's sales approach to economic development:

We also identified our markets – the kinds of companies that would be a good fit for Anderson. Those markets were:

• Water intensive food and beverage production (Nestle!)
• Electrical power generation and storage (we own an electrical utility!)
• Plastics and polymers (newly announced ZEQ, & Israeli-owned HDP )
• Aero-space and medical device advanced manufacturing (NorthStar Aerospace!)
• Data storage, recovery and control (again – our electrical utility is key)
• Alternative entertainment components (Hoosier Park!)

I still do not see how that Hoosier Park is all that well wired into Anderson's economy.