Sentences with phrase «exclusivity zone»

Cuomo and Seneca leaders that year eventually resolved the dispute, with the state agreeing to tighten enforcement of a large geographic exclusivity zone in which the Senecas can operate without new casino competition.

Tribal leaders say a casino exclusivity zone in the compact still remains in effect until 2023.

If Las Vegas style casinos come to New York, it will be in no small part because of a series of complex deals struck by Governor Andrew Cuomo with the state's Indian tribes that shared revenue from their own casinos and created exclusivity zones around their lands.

The move would significantly impact the Seneca's business in the western part of the should casinos be allowed in the Seneca's geographic exclusivity zone.

Then the state gave permission to a major new casino — del Lago Resort & Casino in Seneca County — to open earlier this year just seven miles or so from the eastern edge of that Seneca Nation exclusivity zone.

The bill backed by the Legislature and signed by Cuomo turned the casino construction to upstate New York, setting up exclusivity zones for the Indian - run gambling halls and placing an emphasis on building north of the metropolitan area.

Twenty - two entities submitted a $ 1 million filing fee by Wednesday's midnight deadline to gain the rights to build a casino in one of three commercial exclusivity zones north of New York City.

The owners of Tioga Downs are crying foul after the Seneca County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution that would create what amounts to a 90 - mile exclusivity zone around the Lago Resort & Casino, a Finger Lakes development that is likely to receive a license to open a casino later this year.

The report comes as the Senecas lobby diligently against any proposal that would expand casino gambling into their so - called exclusivity zone that encompasses western New York.

That, of course, is a direct hit at the Senecas, who have already made it clear they would consider any casino run by anyone other than themselves within the 14 - county Western New York exclusivity zone to be a further violation of their compact with the state.

The Lago project is being built outside of the exclusivity zone set aside for the Oneidas.

Turning Stone exists within an exclusivity zone, which Lago does not lie within.

Turning Stone operates within an exclusivity zone approved by the state and the Lago project lies outside of the area.

In arguing their exclusivity rights are highly limited, the Nation referenced Video Lottery Terminal (VLT) facilities, often referred to as racinos, which operate in the heart of the exclusivity zone, as well as full scale non-Seneca casinos at the edge of the zone, specifically the new Del Lago casino near Rochester.

«There's a pretty simple fix, which is carve out Cayuga land from the exclusivity zone.»

Still, casino supporters say the money generated by gaming will benefit communities across the state, even those in the exclusivity zones.

Bonacic, an Orange County Republican, said in a statement that he was pleased to see the state strike a deal with the Seneca Nation of Indians that moved its western New York territory into an exclusivity zone in exchange for resolving an ongoing dispute over payments to the state.

«New Yorkers have every right to discuss expanded gaming outside our exclusivity zone.

The problem is the Senecas and the Oneidas already have these racetrack casinos already in the exclusivity zones and there's no language that those won't expand,» said John Kane, host of «Let's Talk Native.»

«We certainly hope and expect that state legislators and the governor would not ignore another agreement with Indians and will respect the «carve out» of our exclusivity zone.»

That's Oneida Indian Nation Representative Ray Halbritter in May touting his agreement with the state, which sets aside the Central New York region as an exclusivity zone so a commercial casino won't compete with Turning Stone Resort, which the tribe operates.

It is likely the expansion could require new legislation, since it is beyond the Senecas current three - casino franchise, but lies within its exclusivity zone.

The so - called enabling legislation agreed to by top lawmakers and Cuomo comes after the governor struck deals with Indian tribes that operate casinos, granting them exclusivity zones in exchange for new revenue sharing parameters with the state and local governments.

The Cuomo administration and the Seneca Nation settled a long - standing dispute that resulted in the tribe agreeing to send some of its revenue held in a trust to the state, while New York officials agreed to respect the exclusivity zone as it seeks to build commercially run casinos.

The nation pays 25 percent of its slot revenues from its casinos in Niagara Falls, Buffalo and Salamanca to the state in exchange for the exclusive right to operate gaming machines in its exclusivity zone.

The exclusivity zone is already in dispute, however.

David A. Paterson in the final months of his administration sent a «notice of claim» in 2010 when the Senecas withheld casino payments because of what it called illegal competition in an exclusivity zone of casinos carved out for the tribe.

Those exclusivity zones put a portion of the Finger Lakes into the same region as the Southern Tier, an area experiencing some of the highest unemployment rates in New York.

In exchange for Albany allowing slot machines at racetracks within the Seneca's exclusivity zone, the Gaming Corporation wants the Cuomo Administration to alter the compact to allow a Seneca Casino in Rochester.

Though he said Cuomo acknowledged the «economic benefits to New York State of Indian - owned casinos» and that the Senecas had no «quarrel» with possible casinos in othe regions of the state, Porter cautioned «the state must not kill the golden goose that supports the Western New York economy and must recognize our exclusivity zone.»