Presque Isle Downs is Open

With the start of the 2007 construction season, the Presque Isle Downs Casino in Erie Pennsylvania is open for business, partially due to the site improvement contract of Independence Excavating personnel with Mountaineer Gaming of Chester, West Virginia. As part of that scope of work, we will continue to support the finishing operations for the racing facilities, including track and stables. In addition to the site improvements, our concrete division will perform stable footing construction work, and will sub-contract the actual barn erection with Century Steel. The added work will consist of five barns and four ancillary buildings to support the horse-racing facilities. The latest scope is coupled with the other facility work, all under another aggressive schedule in order to commence practice and racing activities in August 2007. Independence Excavating, as well as our committed sub-contractors and suppliers, are up for this new challenge in the support of the MTR development.