Sentences with phrase «location board»

Up to four licenses will be issue in the first round of construction, and members of the casino location board have suggested they may not issue all of them immediately.

Gaming Facility Location Board Chairman Kevin Law said that he saw «no harm» in soliciting new proposals solely for the Southern Tier, as the governor suggested.

The first round of casino construction will see table - top gaming facilities built in Tyre, Schenectady and in Sullivan County after the state gaming facility location board recommended those projects to the state Gaming Commission.

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 announced was made in a joint statement from New York State Gaming Commission Chairman Mark Geran and Gaming Facility Location Board Chairman Kevin Law.

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.

It was just over six months ago that the New York State Gaming Facility Location Board announced that it was recommending three casino licenses.

The casino, located in Tyre, would «cannibalize» the region's gambling market — which members of the state Gaming Facility Location Board said they wanted to avoid when issuing their recommendations in December, according to lawyers for Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack in Farmington — about 33 miles east of the Lage site.

The push back to the Lago project began last year, but several months after the casino siting location board recommended the Lago project be approved.

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.

The Gaming Facility Location Board last month passed on Gural's plan and picked the Lago Resort & Casino Resort as the winner for a region including parts of the Finger Lakes and the Southern Tier.

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.

At 1 p.m., the New York Gaming Facility Location Board meets, (no decision or announcement on casino licenses is expected), Hofstra University Club, President's Board Room, Hempstead.

This comes a year after the state Gaming Facility Location board selected the three projects from 16 developers who were looking to build up to four casinos outside the New York City area.

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.

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.

ALBANY — State officials face a major challenge in deciding whether to allow casinos in economically struggling parts of the Catskills or in relatively affluent Orange County, closer to New York City, Gaming Facilities Location Board member Kevin Law said.

Location Board members initially said they wanted to see a major investment by bidders.

The suit claims the casino siting location board did not use an objective weighting analysis that was required under the state law allowing for commercial casino gaming.

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.

The New York Gaming Facility Location Board instead awarded full licenses to projects in Schenectady, the Catskills and the town of Tyre, between Rochester and Syracuse.

The state Gaming Commission's Gaming Facility Location Board huddled last week, indicating it will make its decision as to which licenses will be issued at the next meeting, which is scheduled for Dec. 17.

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.

The memo was released as the Gaming Facility Location Board issued requests for applications for up to four commercial casinos spread over three regions of the state.

Officials at the gaming facility location board determined an Orange County casino would have «cannibalized» a competing casino in the Catksills.

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.

New York's Gaming Facility Location Board endorsed a plan from Tioga Downs Wednesday.

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.

Members of the Gaming Commission, with no comment or debate, agreed to an earlier recommendation by their special Location Board to seek bids for a casino that would be located in the Southern Tier.

The long - awaited announcement from the state's Gaming Facility Location Board came shortly after the board convened Wednesday afternoon in Albany.

Members of the New York Gaming Facility Location Board listened to both supports and opponents of a proposed casino coming to the region.

The New York State Gaming Facility Location Board approved Governor Cuomo's request for a new round of bidding for a casino in the Southern Tier.

The state's gaming facility location board on Wednesday recommended three casino projects in three different regions of upstate New York receive a potentially lucrative license to open a casino resort that includes table - top gaming.

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.

But just hours before the casino location board announced its picks, Cuomo said fracking will not be allowed in the state.

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.

«While we are disappointed with the Board's decision, we thank the distinguished members of the Facility Location Board for their consideration of our applications in Tuxedo and Montgomery,» said Michael Levoff, Vice President of Corporate Communications, Genting Americas.

At 9:30 a.m., the New York Gaming Facility Location Board meets, ESDC, 37th Floor Conference Room, 633 Third Ave., Manhattan.

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.

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...

Last week, the state's Gaming Facility Location Board rejected 13 proposals in favor of projects in Sullivan, Seneca and Schenectady counties.

Each submitted reams of documents to the five - member Gaming Facilities Location Board, which is chosen by the state's Gaming Commission, whose members are selected by the governor.

The state's casino location board recommended Lago receive one of the licenses, along with casino projects in Sullivan County and Schenectady.

The facility location board awarded two other licenses in the Catskills region in Sullivan County and in Schenectady.

The Gaming Facility Location board last month approved three of four casinos, one each in the Catskills, Finger Lakes and Schenectady.

The state's Gaming Facility Location Board on Wednesday recommended only one casino license be granted in the Catskill - Hudson Valley region — to Empire Resorts, which plans to create the Montreign Resort Casino at the site of the former Concord hotel in the Sullivan County town of Thompson.

At the same time, the Oneidas claim the location board on the one hand eliminated casino applicants that were based on factors «completely ignored» in the Lago project.

The New York Gaming Facility Location Board is holding two days of presentations from developers today and Tuesday at Empire State Plaza Meeting Room 6, in the shadow of the state capitol.

«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.»

From the very beginning, I have had concerns with the site selection process and the rapid pace and the proliferation of gaming facilities throughout the state and previously urged the New York State Gaming Commission to reconsider some of the decisions made by the Gaming Facility Location Board that I believed would be economically detrimental to Upstate New York.