Sentences with phrase «gambling in resort areas»
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Ultimately, in an acknowledgment of the increasingly crowded gambling market, the state board wound up awarding three licenses, not four: a $ 300 million casino in Schenectady, north of Albany; a $ 450 million resort in the Finger Lakes town of Tyre; and, in the Catskills - Mid-Hudson area, a $ 750 million project near Monticello.
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When the application process began, the state's plan was for as many as four gambling resorts in three upstate regions and possibly up to three more in the New York City area within seven years.
Smaller gambling developments proposed in economically strapped areas should be able to compete with resort projects proposed by big - name companies in more affluent areas, the head of the state Gaming Commission said of the contest to win up to four casino licenses upstate.
While that accounts for a 3.2 percent increase overall, gambling companies in New York are opening up to four new resort - style casinos in Schenectady, the Catskills and in the Finger Lakes, with gambling regulators due to award a fourth license to a Binghamton - area project as well.