As Empire City Turns 15, MGM Resorts Reiterates Interest in Full Casino License

October marks the 15th anniversary for the Empire City Casino, and according to a free from MGM Resorts International, the Yonkers, NY facility heralded the occasion by reaching another milestone.

Earlier this month, the picture drawing terminal locus at Yonkers Raceway reached the $4 one million million Deutsche Mark inward funding for New House of York res publica education. More than $1.3 1000000000 has been generated in the lastly fivesome years. That’s despite a six-month closing and several months of rock-bottom operating mental ability due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Empire City officials said the Westchester County casino’s economic impact extends beyond its funding for education. It’s the largest buck private employer inward Yonkers with more than 1,000 workers. Thomas More than 70 percent of the workforce lives in Yonkers, nearby Mount Vernon, or the Bronx – the closest New York City borough. The cassino has an one-year paysheet of $80 trillion and spends more than $30 one thousand thousand to each one twelvemonth inward purchasing goods and services from local businesses.

The gambling casino also generates hundreds of millions to financial support the sport of rein in racing, which races year-around at the 122-year-old track.

Casino Resort Would Add 2,500 Jobs

While Empire City is celebrating its anniversary, officials in that location are also provision for the hereafter as well.

MGM Resorts, which purchased the casino II years ago, has said it wants to pee Empire City a fully fledged casino. That would grant it to offer up unrecorded tabularise games, instead than the electronic change currently available there. It would also surface the door for a brick-and-mortar sportsbook and several other amenities.

Empire City said it would append another 2,500 employees if it received I of the leash casino resort licenses set aside for the downstate region. It also said the run would lead, direct and indirectly, to more than 10,000 unexampled jobs.

Senior Vice President and General Manager Ed Placido Domingo said in a statement that MGM is “fully committed” to New York.

This is an exciting time as we reflect on the yesteryear 15 years of success and looking at forrader towards continuing to expand our offerings as a hospitality and entertainment company,” Placido Domingo said. “We can’t hold back to insure what the next 15 years bring.”

This past times week, the New House of York State Gaming Commission published a request for information regarding the deuce-ace downstate licenses. The office is looking for feedback from companies interested in applying for a license as swell as from communities and other stakeholders.

Responses to the RFI are due on Dec. 10.

About Empire City

The Empire City Casino was highly-developed past the Rooney family, ameliorate known for its ownership of the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers. The Rooneys bought the runway inward 1972. The house spent $225 million to establish a casino with to a greater extent than 7,500 gaming terminals.

A $50 1000000 enlargement took put inward 2012 and officially opened inward Jan 2013.

MGM Resorts bought the rails and cassino from the Rooneys inward January 2019 for $850 million. The Las Vegas-based gaming companion sold the property to MGM Growth Properties and later entered into a lease.