I visited Harrah's Chester Racino in Chester Pennsylvania.  This is one of
the 14 slot machine rooms that are being built in the state.  In is located
in a town that regularly is cited as one of the worst urban environments in
the US, and this visit didn't disappoint.

The room is located about 5 mins off of I95, near a huge Boeing factory, in
a riverfront rustbelt. It is probably 15 mins or so from the main NS
corridor which runs through New Jersey.   The immediate neighbor of the
casino is a rather new looking building, perhaps a hotel?  No, the razorwire
gives it away, it is the Delaware County Prison.  Free parking abuts one of
the cellblocks.

Inside the warehouse-styled building, the first gaming floor houses the
racebook and grandstand for the standardbred course that opens in July.  The
track area is not landscaped and overlooks the Delaware River floodplain.

Upstairs in the slot area are 2000 or so of the standard coinless slots and
poker machines.  PA recently approved the use of the new video table games
but none were in evidence.

There seemed to be a lot of free space built into the facility, probably on
the bet that full gaming licenses will be allowed sometime in the future.

The facility was clean enough and there were plenty of food choices of
standard casino fare.  But the drive out in daylight was unsettling and a
nightime exit would be worse.