A week after Penn National Gaming submitted the first petition to operate a sports book in Pennsylvania, Parx sports betting moved closer to reality with their own application.

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board said Monday that Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment filed two petitions at the close of business on Friday to offer sports betting at the Parx Casino in Bensalem and at its South Philadelphia Turf Club, an off-track betting parlor in Philadelphia.

Penn National filed one on Aug. 17 for Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in East Hanover Township.

Pennsylvania casino owners can pay $10 million to operate sports betting in the commonwealth. Sports betting operations in Pennsylvania also will need to pay 36 percent in state and local taxes on sports books.

For more on Parx Sports Betting, please visit the Central Penn Business Journal.