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The Resorts World New York City Casino and Hyatt Regency Hotel in Queens.<\/p>\n
Courtesy of Perkins Eastman<\/p>\n
The New York State Gaming Facility Location Board<\/a> unanimously voted in favor of all three remaining casino bids, representing a major victory for the Bally\u2019s casino proposal in the Bronx and the Metropolitan Park and Resorts World developments in Queens.<\/a><\/p>\n The vote represents the second-to-last step in a years-long process to award three downstate gaming licenses to projects in the New York metropolitan area, with the Gaming Commission set to deliver a verdict by the end of the month.<\/p>\n Delivering the verdict at the CUNY Graduate Center Monday morning, board chair Vicki Been said the board had determined that advancing all three projects \u201cbest advances the state\u2019s long-term economic, fiscal and community objectives.\u201d<\/p>\n Spokespeople for Resorts World New York City, Metropolitan Park and Bally\u2019s were all jubilant in reacting to Monday\u2019s board vote.\n<\/p>\n \u201cResorts World New York City\u2019s journey to this historic moment represents more than 15 years of work to generate jobs, revenue, and opportunities for our neighbors,\u201d said Robert DeSalvio, president of Genting Americas East. \u201cResorts World New York City\u2019s $7.5 billion proposal is the only bid that can expand operations in just 90 days, generating billions in new revenue for mass transit and public education over the next four years.\u201d<\/p>\n Karl Rickett, spokesperson for Metropolitan Park \u2014 the joint casino bid led by Mets owner Steve Cohen and Hard Rock International \u2013 said the Dec. 1 vote represented the project moving \u201cone step closer to becoming a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFollowing a fair, transparent and rigorous process, the Gaming Facility Location Board has validated the positive economic impact this project will have with billions of dollars in tax revenue, 23,000 union jobs, and over $1 billion in community benefits,\u201d Rickett said. \u201cWe look forward to the Gaming Commission\u2019s review.\u201d<\/p>\n The three proposals were the last remaining bids in the race to obtain a downstate license, with Community Advisory Committees voting down three proposals in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn. MGM Empire City, an existing \u201cracino\u201d in Yonkers, later withdrew its applications.<\/p>\n However, some doubts had remained whether the Gaming Facility Location Board would award all three licenses ahead of Monday\u2019s vote or vote against certain proposals.\n<\/p>\n This is a developing story; check with amNY.com for further updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Resorts World New York City Casino and Hyatt Regency Hotel in Queens. Courtesy of Perkins Eastman The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[30965,11135,30966,20625,30967,15982,5868,25075,30968,9,1658,1467,56,63,65,64,30536,30688,30969,30970],"class_list":["post-57281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-ballyu2019s-bronx","tag-bronx-development","tag-casino-proposals","tag-community-impact","tag-cuny-graduate-center","tag-downstate-casino-licenses","tag-economic-development","tag-gaming-facility-location-board","tag-metropolitan-park-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city-casinos","tag-new-york-state-gaming-commission","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-queens-development","tag-resorts-world-nyc","tag-state-gaming-vote","tag-vicki-been"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57281","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=57281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}