The June 6 opening of Maryland Live at Arundel Mills mall got plenty of attention in local newspapers and TV outlets.
It also caught the attention of the Wall Street Journal, which found the 4,750-slot machine venue unusual for its being on the site of a suburban shopping mall.
"Malls have become popular additions to casino complexes in Atlantic City and Las Vegas ever since
Simon Property Group, which owns Arundel Mills, opened The Forum Shops as an extension to Caesars Palace on the Last Vegas Strip in 1992," the Journal writes in the
article.
The opening of Maryland's third slots parlor was marked by traffic backups on Interstate 295, celebrity-chef Bobby Flay -- on hand for Bobby's Burger Palace -- and
feuding between executives in Anne Arundel and Prince George's Counties amid talks of a casino at National Harbor.