Sentences with phrase «casino gaming facilities»
Lawmakers also approved a measure that would boost training for people to recognize human trafficking when it occurs, including programs for employees at commercial casino gaming facilities.
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An additional detractor for the quarter was Melco Crown Entertainment (Hong Kong), which is a developer and owner of casino gaming and entertainment resort facilities in Asia.
The Fund's largest detractor for the quarter was Melco International Development (Hong Kong), which is a developer and owner of casino gaming and entertainment resort facilities in Asia.
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The casinos feature gaming, accommodations, dining, conference and banquet facilities, live entertainment, and The Grand Harmony Spa and Grand National Golf Club at Grand Casino Hinckley.
When it comings to casino gambling, New Yorkers remain evenly divided at 46 - 46, down from 49 - 42 last month, on whether to allow the expansion of non-Indian run gaming facilities across the state.
«The politically potent union has standing labor agreements with all three of the casino projects that got the green light from the Gaming Facility Location Board.»
I do not believe that bailing out this casino with people's hard - earned tax dollars is the appropriate way to go about addressing this issue, especially given the fact that there are other gaming facilities with video lottery terminals who continue to struggle as a result of casino decisions and have not received the same level of support now being requested.
The state Gaming Commission's Facility Location Board put out requests for applications Monday for casinos in the Albany area, the Catskills and the Southern Tier.
And following a recent agreement between Genting Group, the parent company of Resorts World New York, which is located on Aqueduct grounds, and Nassau County Off - Track Betting, the casino is set to get 1,000 new video lottery terminals, bringing the facility's gaming capacity to approximately 6,000 VLTs.
Despite increased competition from new facilities, Turning Stone Resort Casino has been named New York state's «best overall gaming resort» in an annual ranking published by Casino Player magazine.
Two elected officials in Orange County have penned a letter to members of the New York State Gaming Facility Location Board, inviting them to tour an area they say needs a casino.
His remarks came a day after the Rivers Casino and Resort at Mohawk Harbor got the nod for a license from the state's Gaming Facility Location Board for the Capital Region / Hudson Valley section by beating out competing proposals in Rensselaer, East Greenbush and Schoharie County.
Cuomo's deal, which was approved by the state Legislature last month, does not preclude bingo halls, horse racing tracks, charitable games of chance, or any gaming facility operated pursuant to the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act from operating within the counties where Indian casinos were granted exclusgaming facility operated pursuant to the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act from operating within the counties where Indian casinos were granted exclusGaming Regulatory Act from operating within the counties where Indian casinos were granted exclusivity.
Seneca Gaming showed off its $ 40 million latest addition to the Buffalo Creek Casino, part of $ 200 million poured into the facility that was started when the neighborhood was bare, with more to come.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo will today visit the three upstate counties selected for new casinos by the state's Gaming Facility Location Board.
Gural also owns Tioga Downs in New York's Southern Tier region and hopes to turn video gaming and harness racing facility into a full - scale, commercial casino.
The Seneca Nation of Indians is considering a Rochester - area casino in the town of Henrietta — a gaming and hotel facility that comes just after the state agreed to a new revenue - sharing plan with the tribe.
The state's gaming facility location board on Wednesday awarded casino licenses to project bids in Sullivan County, Schenectady and the town of Tyre in Seneca County.
The small but scrappy and political potent union has standing labor agreements with all three of the casino projects that got the green light from the Gaming Facility Location Board.
In a letter to Cuomo released on Tuesday, Dwyer points to Cuomo late last week calling on the state's gaming facility location board to re-open the casino siting process in order to award a fourth casino license to a Southern Tier - based project.
But 56 percent said they don't support the idea of building more VLT gaming facilities, with the same number saying they prefer more casinos to more VLTs.
Bonacic, R - Mount Hope, said he's still holding out hope for at least three casinos in the Catskill Region, but said Cuomo was willing to add a fourth casino in the first round of construction in exchange for capping the number of gaming facilities at two.
Officials at the gaming facility location board determined an Orange County casino would have «cannibalized» a competing casino in the Catksills.
The casino license would be the fourth awarded and comes after the state's gaming facility siting board decided in December to only issue three licenses for casino projects.
After the casino decisions were announced Wednesday, Gaming Facility Location Board Chairman Kevin Law was asked whether it was possible to go back and recommend a fourth license down the road.
The letter, which was addressed to both Cuomo and the members of the Gaming Facility Location Board, notes the original, stated intent of the casino expansion amendment approved by voters last year was to increase job growth and aid to schools.
Any casino amendment would be bitterly opposed by Indian nations, who have derived millions of dollars in revenue from the operation of the gaming facilities in the last several decades.
Libous is supportive of the Tioga Downs casino project proposed by developer and businessman Jeff Gural, but the region was virtually shut out of the casino business when the state gaming facility siting board granted three licenses last month, not four as the state law allows.
The region was essentially passed over for a casino project that same day as the hydrofracking announcement was made in the governor's year - end cabinet meeting, with the state's gaming facility location board awarding the project bid to a development proposal in Seneca County in the Finger Lakes region.
It is anticipated that Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposed amendment that would give the go - ahead for new casinos to open in areas outside those where Native American gaming facilities operate in New York, could spur $ 1 billion dollars in economic development.
The license will allow Tioga Downs to complete its transformation into a full - scale casino, replacing the current Video Lottery Terminals with slot machines and allowing the facility to add Blackjack, Roulette, Craps, a Poker Room and other casino card games that would be permitted by the gaming commission.
The New York Gaming Facility Location Board kicked off two days of hearing in - person presentations from 16 casino applicants, including Tioga Downs head and Newmark Grubb Knight Frank chairman Jeff Gural, on Monday.
On Sept. 7 and 8, developers of the 17 proposed projects will present their plans to the commission's Gaming Facility Location Board, which ultimately will select the locations for the casinos, said commission Spokesman Lee Park.
Cahill, D - Kingston, renewed his call for passage of the bill in December after the state's Gaming Facility Location Board rejected the Nevele's bid for a casino license.
The Gaming Facility Location Board chose Empire Resorts» proposal for the Montreign Resort Casino, at the former Concord hotel site in the town of Thompson, as the lone applicant in the Catskills - Hudson Valley region that will be allowed to receive a gambling license from the state.
Following months of deliberations, the state's Gaming Facility Location Review Board announced Wednesday that it had picked the Montreign Resort Casino in the Catskills town of Thompson, in Sullivan County; the Rivers Casino & Resort at Mohawk Harbor in Schenectady; and Lago Resort & Casino in the Finger Lakes town of Tyre in Seneca County.
The casino's first 265 video lottery terminals opened at 1 p.m., just hours after the state Gaming Commission issued a certificate allowing the facility to open at Jake's 58 Hotel & Casino, on the north service road of the Long Island Exprecasino's first 265 video lottery terminals opened at 1 p.m., just hours after the state Gaming Commission issued a certificate allowing the facility to open at Jake's 58 Hotel & Casino, on the north service road of the Long Island ExpreCasino, on the north service road of the Long Island Expressway.
The Gaming Facility Location Board also recommended licenses be awarded to the Rivers Casino & Resort applicant in Schenectady and the Lago Resort & Casino developer in the Seneca County town of Tyre.
Gaming Facility Location Chairman Board Kevin Law defended the board's December decision not to pick one of two casino applications from the Southern Tier but said «we are willing to entertain the governor's request.»
The NYT OpEds against Cuomo's casino amendment, saying he has failed to make the case that non-Indian run gaming facilities will indeed improve the upstate economy, producing jobs and steady revenue.
But, he also noted that casinos in Northern New Jersey would have a similar impact, and by approving NYC gaming facilities, he reasoned, at least revenue would have a chance of remaining inside state lines.
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.
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So he was elated this week when the state's Gaming Facility Location Board selected a developer to build the kind of thing that he and so many others had tried to do for 40 years: an $ 800 million resort with a casino, 18 - story hotel, indoor - outdoor water park, conference center, cabins and hiking trails on the grounds of the old Concord property.
Robert Williams, executive director of the state Gaming Commission, noted that the casinos are just now getting started and «it's too early to draw any conclusions» about how the facilities are faring financially.
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The requirement is designed to maximize the economic impact of a casino in the area, and to ensure that any Las Vegas - style facility approved for the area is a «high - quality, large - scale destination» casino, according to the state's Gaming Facility Location Board, which released requirements for each region now authorized to host afacility approved for the area is a «high - quality, large - scale destination» casino, according to the state's Gaming Facility Location Board, which released requirements for each region now authorized to host aFacility Location Board, which released requirements for each region now authorized to host a casino.
Seneca officials say since they opened the Seneca Niagara Casino in 2002, the nation has invested more than $ 1 billion in its gaming and entertainment facilities.
Last month the Gaming Facility Location Board chose sites for three casinos, in the Catskills, Schenectady and the Finger Lakes, but decided against recommending a fourth casino license to the Southern Tier.