{"id":413829,"date":"2025-11-29T23:10:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T23:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/413829\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T23:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T23:10:18","slug":"new-york-gaming-board-set-to-award-up-to-3-casino-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/413829\/","title":{"rendered":"New York gaming board set to award up to 3 casino licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bets are in \u2013 and now state gaming commissioners will decide who hits the jackpot.<\/p>\n

The state Gaming Facility Location Board on Monday will vote to award up three coveted casino licenses for the downstate New York area.<\/p>\n

A pool of what was once 11 bidders has dwindled to three \u2013 but there\u2019s no guarantee each of the survivors will get licenses because the five-member board doesn\u2019t have to award any.<\/p>\n

Mets owner\u00a0Steve Cohen who wants to open a $8 billion casino complex\u00a0next to Citi Field in Flushing, Queens. AP<\/p>\n

However, the Hochul administration has 1.5 billion reasons for wanting three winning bids \u2013 despite objections raised by anti-casino activists and other critics.<\/p>\n

Casino applicants each need to pay $500 million license fees to operate \u2013 which would go into the cash-strapped state\u2019s coffers \u2014 as well commit to at least $500 million in capital investments on their projects.<\/p>\n

Among those looking to cash in is Mets owner\u00a0Steve Cohen, who wants to open a $8 billion casino complex<\/a>\u00a0next to Citi Field in Flushing, Queens. The Hard Rock Metropolitan Park group\u00a0is\u00a0also partnering on the project, which would include a music concert hall and other amenities.<\/p>\n

Bally\u2019s is pushing a $4 billion plan <\/a>to open a Bronx casino on a former golf\u00a0course once owned\u00a0by President Donald Trump, and Resorts World is planning a $5.5 billion expansion of his existing facility at Queens\u2019 Aqueduct race track that already provides parlor games.<\/p>\n

Reps for the Cohen-Hard Rock and Resorts World proposals declined comment Saturday.<\/p>\n

Resorts World is planning a massive expansion of his existing facility at Queens\u2019 Aqueduct race track that already provides parlor games. AP<\/p>\n

However, Bally\u2019s chairman Soo Kim told The Post he believes his chances of scoring a license \u201clooks pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe put our best effort out there,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t think we have any weak spots.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bally\u2019s\u00a0acquired the golf course\u00a0<\/a>at Ferry Point from the Trump Organization in 2023, and it\u2019s now called Bally\u2019s Golf Links at Ferry Point.<\/p>\n

Bally\u2019s is pushing a $4 billion plan to open a Bronx casino on a former golf\u00a0course once owned\u00a0by President Donald Trump. Ballysbronx.com<\/p>\n

As part of the deal, Bally\u2019s agreed to provide the Trump Organization an additional $115 million \u2014 if it wins a casino license.<\/p>\n

Kim shot down criticism over Trump potentially profiting off the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump gets a fair deal. The Bronx gets a great deal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bets are in \u2013 and now state gaming commissioners will decide who hits the jackpot. The state…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":413830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,57826,9303,9305,393,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,80,4413,88558,75788,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-413829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-aqueduct","tag-casinos","tag-citi-field","tag-gaming","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-queens","tag-steve-cohen","tag-trump-golf-links-at-ferry-point","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115635514614769768","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}