That board, in January, distributed a 70-page “Request for Applications” document that has caught the attention of the biggest companies in gaming. It’s a competitive process that is being overseen by the New York Gaming Commission and its three-member Gaming Facility Location Board. Nine years later, in 2022, lawmakers established a new siting process and criteria for the remaining three licenses. State officials sited four destination casino resorts in upstate New York. In 2013, the New York Constitution was amended to authorize up to seven commercial casinos in the state.

For us West Coasters, downstate is defined as the New York City area and the counties of Nassau, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester. Las Vegas is the undisputed center of the gaming industry universe, but New York is making a bid to grab its share of attention this year.įriday was the first of several key deadlines, as the state forges ahead in its effort to award three downstate casino licenses in the Empire State. A rendering of Las Vegas Sands Corp.'s proposed multibillion-dollar casino resort project at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Long Island in Nassau County, New York, released Thursday, Jan.

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