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Casino Reopenings Draw In Gamblers Despite Online Gaming Surges

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One person cited in the report drove from Houston to Louisiana with her family for the reopening of casinos on Monday. Pennsylvania reported similar numbers, with tax revenues from brick-and-mortar gambling dropping to $50.5 And, even though revenue for its casinos dropped 61.7 million in March of this year from $67.5

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Path To World Series Brings Changes To Online Gambling

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But that doesn’t mean the money doesn’t flow during the baseball playoffs – evidence of that comes from Jim McIngvale, a Houston furniture store owner known as “ Mattress Mack ,” who just put $3.5 million on the Houston Astros to win the 2019 World Series. Payments Innovation. has added to that pressure.

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CVS Health Unveils Atlanta HealthHUBs; Target’s Digital Sales Rise Despite Slow Growth

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CVS Health started to test out HealthHUB locations last year in Houston to “overwhelming customer satisfaction” per the announcement. Walgreens and VillageMD said last year that they were collaborating to offer primary care services for adult patients in the Houston, Texas area. The value of receipts at merchants increased 0.3

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Warehouse Space Going For Premium Rates

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The only markets that did not — thanks to a bevy of recently completed construction projects — included Houston, Cincinnati, Denver, Minneapolis, California’s Inland Empire, South Central Pennsylvania, Cleveland and Honolulu. Of the 57 major retail markets studied, 37 of them posted decreases to warehousing availability.

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The Warehouse Building Rush Brought By eCommerce

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This weekend Allen Township in Pennsylvania saw a groundbreaking …well, groundbreaking. Harrisburg and York, Pennsylvania, have historically housed large warehouse clusters, given their access to population centers, non-restrictive zoning and lots of space to build on the cheap. Dollar General Corp., Ocean Spray and PetSmart Inc.

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And Then There Were 20 — The Amazon HQ2 Finalists

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Los Angeles, California. Miami, Florida. Montgomery County, Maryland. Nashville, Tennessee. Newark, New Jersey. New York City, New York. Northern Virginia, Virginia. Raleigh, North Carolina. Toronto, Ontario. Washington, D.C.

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Hurricane Florence’s Retail Punch

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in West Chester, Pennsylvania, said in reference to Florence. Industrial production also took a big hit last September before surging in October, largely driven by Houston’s petro-chemical industry surging back online. The first place you’ll likely see it is in initial jobless claims,” Ryan Sweet, an economist at Moody’s Analytics Inc.

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