Long Island Residents Launch Petition Against Sands Casino Plan
Las Vegas Sands’ program to convey a new casino-hotel to capital of the Bahamas County, NY is veneer oppositeness from locals that trust the venue testament manage more harm than good.
The residents formed the Say No to the Casino Civic Association, which is non politically affiliated, to go up capital of the Bahamas County policymakers near rejecting the gaming company’s overtures. They also started a petition on Change.org, which as of this writing, has 1,759 signatures. They’re aiming to catch to let at to the lowest degree 2,500 signatures with the trust that at the level, local news outlets testament be to a greater extent inclined to pickaxe upward the story.
This gambling casino will alter the part of capital of the Bahamas County and the surrounding neighborhoods and testament pencil lead to an increase inwards crime, traffic and dissonance pollution. It will also pose a nervous strain on our local practice of law enforcement and governments,” noted the association.
The association isn’t the only when Long Island entity voicing opponent to the cassino plan. Earlier this year, Hofstra University said it isn’t inward favour of a gaming locus and it lately reiterated that view. Likewise, the Garden City Village Board of Trustees believes the program should live rejected.
Long Island Casino Opposition Not Unusual
Las Vegas Sands is among a cadre of well-known gaming companies vying for ternion downstate permits inwards New York. Others include Bally’s, Caesars Entertainment, MGM Resorts International, Resorts World and Wynn Resorts.
As is the example with seemingly nearly every new gambling casino proposition crosswise the country, Sands is cladding some opponent inwards Long Island, but that’s the caseful with a change of the other New House of York City-area casino pitches, too. For example, there’s budding dissent against bringing gaming venues to Times Square and the Willets Point country next to Citi Field in Queens.
In January, Sands said it entered into agreements to gain the long-term leases pertaining to the site that’s place to capital of the Bahamas Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Should those transactions be approved, the gaming troupe would solid ground command of upward to 80 acres, paving the right smart for it acquire a casino-hotel, if it is selected as 1 of the triplet recipients of young gaming licenses.
LVS CEO Rob Goldstein said inwards January the contrive could bring forth tens of millions of dollar mark inward impertinent task revenue for Long Island, which could reserve politicians to judge property tax relief. He added a Nassau County casino could follow a supercharge to local businesses and community of interests groups.
Long Island Casino Has Some Support, Too
In a speech communication earlier this month, capital of the Bahamas County Executive Robert the Bruce Blakeman outlined some of the must-haves for a Long Island casino, including “a luxury hotel and entertainment component; it must wreak significant revenue to the county and surrounding areas, including expression and lasting jobs; and third, it must experience the support of the community.”
He’s antecedently said that conventions, dining and amusement should follow the focuses of the locus with gaming being secondary to those endeavors.
Sands’ purport to entreat for a New York City-area gambling casino allow was well-known. But the centering on Long Island is to a greater extent recent and potentially prudent. In tardily 2022, former New York Gov. St. David Paterson (D), at present a senior vice chairperson at the gaming company, said he’d pushing his employer to deal Long Island.
As for when New House of York authorities testament foretell the winners of the trio downstate licenses, that’s the content of sizeable speculation. Initially, the belief was it could come about later(a) this year, but recent rumors surfaced indicating the operation could heading into 2024 or 2025.