The project would be financed by an $11 million loan from Cornerstone Capital. Piontkowski would purchase the land for $4.5 million, and buy an existing 40,000-square-foot building to use as the grandstand.

The Racing Commission issued a conditional license for Piontkowski's proposed track in November 1997, with a targeted opening date of May 1998. Kraft withdrew his application weeks later, however, leaving Piontkowski as harness racing's only hope in the state. Two competing plans to resurrect the sport were soon brought before the Massachusetts Racing Commission, with Kraft seeking to reopen Foxboro under a new operator, while Gary Piontkowski, who had managed Foxboro under Sarkis, proposed to build a new track at a 90-acre site in Plainville. In 1997, Massachusetts's only harness racing track, Foxboro Park, was closed after a legal dispute between its owner, Robert Kraft, and its operator, Charles Sarkis. It is owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn Entertainment. Plainridge Park Casino is a harness racing track and slot machine parlor in Plainville, Massachusetts.