Developers are breaking ground on what will be the first of four casinos in Ohio.
They gathered with a few public officials in Toledo for a ceremony to mark the start of construction on a casino that will be built along Interstate 75 near downtown.
Work is expected to start within the next two weeks and to be completed sometime in early 2012.
Penn National, based in Wyomissing, Pa., has rights to casinos planned in Toledo and Columbus.
Voters last year approved casinos in those cities as well as Cleveland and Cincinnati.