"For better or worse, we're one step closer to having craps tables in the Bronx. On Monday morning, a community advisory committee voted five to one on Bally's bid to build a 3-million-square-foot gambling and entertainment complex next to its Ferry Point golf course. The nearly $4 billion casino proposal also includes plans for a 500-room hotel, a spa, a retail space, and a 2,000-person events center, all of which seems like the perfect fit for a former landfill site."
"Meanwhile, all three applications in Manhattan, including SL Green's partnership with Jay-Z and Caesars to build a casino smack in the middle of Times Square, were shot down by their respective panels. ("Sorry, Jay-Z, we win again," Donovan Richards Jr., the Queens borough president, said after his panel approved Genting's project that counts the rapper Nas as one of its partners.)"
A community advisory committee voted five to one to advance Bally's proposal for a 3-million-square-foot, nearly $4 billion casino and entertainment complex adjacent to Ferry Point golf course. The proposal includes a 500-room hotel, spa, retail space, and a 2,000-person events center on a former landfill site. Genting's Aqueduct Resorts World in Jamaica and MGM's Empire City Casino in Yonkers remain finalists for downstate licenses, aided by existing racinos. All three Manhattan applications, including SL Green's Times Square plan with Jay‑Z and Caesars, were rejected by local panels. Thor Equities' Coney Island proposal appears unlikely to proceed. The advisory committee process was driven in part by lawmakers who raised concerns about gambling.
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