{"id":145462,"date":"2026-02-26T00:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145462\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T00:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:22:07","slug":"construction-prep-underway-for-8-billion-hard-rock-casino-in-queens-cdc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145462\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction prep underway for $8 billion Hard Rock casino in Queens \u2014 CDC Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWednesday, February 25, 2026 6:56 PM<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/delete-19-375x225.jpg\" class=\"no-lazy\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image aggregated from Queens Daily Eagle.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Generic-Author.jpg\"\/>Jacob Kaye, Queens Daily Eagle\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Email, LinkedIn, and more<\/p>\n<p>While the New York Mets lay the groundwork for their upcoming season in Florida, similar foundations are being laid for Steve Cohen\u2019s casino next to Citi Field.<\/p>\n<p>Preparations for the construction of Metropolitan Park began in recent weeks, marking the first steps toward the creation of the casino and entertainment complex Cohen and Hard Rock won a license to build in December.<\/p>\n<p>The work doesn\u2019t qualify as an actual groundbreaking, according to a Metropolitan Park spokesperson. That will come when construction begins in earnest \u2013 the spokesperson declined to comment on when that might be.<\/p>\n<p>Preparation for construction began earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, February 25, 2026 6:56 PM Image aggregated from Queens Daily Eagle. Jacob Kaye, Queens Daily Eagle Email,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-145462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}