Sentences with phrase «fourth gaming license»

ELLENVILLE, N.Y. — As the state is about to reconsider assigning a fourth gaming license, and specifically in the Southern Tier region, the communities of Ellenville and Wawarsing have not given up efforts to get approval for the Nevele hotel as a gaming location.

The state's recommendation — which is expected to be formally approved by gaming regulators — does not include a fourth gaming license after the facility location board concluded fourth resort would not be economically viable.

Not exact matches

As expected, state gaming regulators on Tuesday approved a casino license for the Tioga Downs Casino in the town of Nichols — adding a fourth casino to upstate New York.

Nonetheless, on Friday, the governor, who has said he has no role in the approval process, sent a letter to the State Gaming Commission asking that it reopen bidding for a fourth license, in the Southern Tier region.

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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.

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.

Days after the announcement, Cuomo — who had stressed he was playing no role in the casino siting project — wrote to gaming regulators asking that they re-open the RFP process and consider a Southern Tier - based casino with the still available fourth license.

«The gaming commission just came down with the press release that they are considering the fourth license, but only in the Souther Tier and no other region,» Kaplan said.

In a letter sent Friday to the Gaming Commission and its siting board, Cuomo noted the legal authority remains for a fourth license to be granted.

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.

«NY gaming board willing to consider fourth casino license, but not in Hudson Valley - Catskills region,» Jan. 9, 2015

«I am alarmed by your decision to exclude the Newburgh area, a community that is 80 percent African American and Latino, from participation in the competition for the fourth casino gaming license.

The Gaming Commission on Monday acknowledged receipt of Cuomo's letter, but a spokesman declined to respond when asked if there is a timeline for awarding a fourth license.

----------------------------- State Senator Tom Libous is calling on the New York State Gaming Facility Location Board, and the Governor to reconsider the Southern Tier's 2 applications for the fourth authorized casino license, at a press conference Friday in Binghamton:

«As New York president of the oldest civil rights organization in the nation, I am alarmed by your decision to exclude the Newburgh area, a community that is 80 percent African American and Latino, from participating in the competition for the fourth casino gaming license,» Hazel Dukes wrote in the letter.