Posted on: December 2, 2022, 04:20h.
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Las Vegas Sands is claimed to be contemplating a number of websites on Lengthy Island as potential properties for a New York-area on line casino.
Las Vegas Sands Vice President David Paterson. He’s pushing the corporate to think about Lengthy Island as a web site for a New York on line casino. (Picture: Spectrum Information)
Former New York Gov. David Paterson (D), now a senior vp on the gaming firm, is pushing his employer to think about Lengthy Island, citing congestion points in Manhattan. Visitors considerations aren’t the one potential headwinds dealing with operators trying to carry a gaming venue to Manhattan.
Competitors is fierce for a Manhattan on line casino license, with Caesars Leisure, Exhausting Rock Worldwide, and Wynn Resorts among the many corporations fascinated about that borough. Bally’s could also be as effectively. Along with that crowded area, there’s opposition to some casino-hotel plans in Manhattan, and a few specialists imagine the borough is solely a no-go for a brand new gaming venue.
We don’t know the place the situation is at this level,” Paterson instructed Newsday. “However I’m the one who recommended that they (Sands) take a look at Lengthy Island due to all of the congestion in Manhattan.”
New York is anticipated to award a 3rd downstate on line casino license, whereas permitting MGM’s Empire Metropolis On line casino in Yonkers and Resorts World in Queens to transform to conventional gaming venues from their present slots-only standing. It’s anticipated that New York gaming regulators received’t award any new permits till late subsequent yr. However they’ll begin fielding purposes for these licenses in January.
Sands May Be Shifting Away from Queens
Beforehand, Sands was rumored to be mulling an built-in resort at a notoriously tough-to-develop plot of land close to Citi Area in Queens.
New York Mets proprietor Steve Cohen is pushing to carry a on line casino to the world, and is claimed to be working with Union Gaming, an funding financial institution that makes a speciality of the on line casino trade, to pick an operator associate. Beforehand, it was believed that Exhausting Rock and Sands have been main that competitors.
Sands might need a number of causes for turning its focus to Lengthy Island from Queens. First, there’s budding opposition on the native degree to a brand new on line casino. Second, Willets Level – the world by which Cohen want to see the on line casino constructed — has confirmed notoriously powerful to develop, with earlier plans for the unused land finally failing.
Paterson acknowledges the Citi Area space and Coney Island in Brooklyn are contenders as on line casino websites. However he criticized the concept of a gaming property in Manhattan, noting it wouldn’t assist corporations get individuals again to work in places of work and would do extra hurt than good when it comes to easing visitors.
For Sands, a Lengthy Island State of Thoughts
Paterson didn’t point out particular websites on Lengthy Island that Sands is contemplating. However he instructed Newsday executives from the gaming firm met with native chambers of commerce on Thursday.
Unidentified sources instructed the newspaper the Nassau Hub, together with Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, is probably into account by Sands, as is the UBS Area/Belmont Park space in Elmont.
Due to its proximity to the Kennedy and LaGuardia airports, Lengthy Island is seen as a viable contender to land a downstate on line casino. Presently, Sands operates six built-in resorts — one in Singapore and 5 in Macau.
