Sentences with phrase «meadowlands casino»
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New Jersey officials are considering allowing casinos within a few miles of Manhattan, in the Meadowlands, Jersey City or Newark.
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Newmark Grubb Knight Frank chairman Jeff Gural met with a dozen elected officials at the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, N.J., Thursday to continue his push for a $ 1 billion casino at the racetrack.
«Neither state wants to see the other take their customers,» said Jeff Gural, a real estate mogul who wants to open a casino at his racetrack in the Meadowlands.
Gural, the chairman of Newmark Knight Frank and the prospective operator of a casino in New Jersey's Meadowlands, said he was «pleased» that the state's Gaming Facility Location Board voted Wednesday to allow him to apply for a full casino license.
«I have the Meadowlands, so, I think there will be a casino at the Meadowlands eventually,» Gural said.
Gural, who owns a horseracing track at the Meadowlands in New Jersey, wouldn't say whether or not he'd pursue plans to build a casino there.
He is proposing a casino at the Meadowlands, which needs voter approval.
The company persevered after some missteps in the mid-2000s — including backing the $ 8.5 billion purchase of Station Casinos, which ended up going bankrupt, and getting crushed on Xanadu, the trouble - plagued $ 2 billion retail and entertainment complex in New Jersey's Meadowlands, during the financial crisis — and Barrack now has a personal fortune that's estimated at $ 1.3 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.