New York Commercial Casino Moves Ahead In Construction ScheduleRivers Casino Eyeing Early February Opening |
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One of the four new Las Vegas-style casinos coming to the Empire State is ahead of schedule and should open in early February.
The $500 million Rivers Casino and Resort in Schenectady said this week that it will begin taking bets on Feb. 8. In late September, the casino was only about half-way complete.
The facility will have a 51,000-square-foot gaming floor, 1,150 slot machines, 77 table games and a 150-room hotel, among other amenities.
The announcement from Rivers Casino came at about the same time that one of the tribal casinos in the state announced a plan for $20 million in upgrades. The expansion of Turning Stone’s gaming offerings is scheduled to be complete in early 2017.
Earlier this month, the New York State Gaming Commission approved regulations for the new commercial casinos. Tioga Downs, one of the state’s nine racinos, is being converted into a Las Vegas-style casino and could begin taking bets as one this year.
Altogether, more than $1.4 billion has been invested into the upstate New York casinos. After learning that residents spend about $1 billion each year at out-of-state casinos, New York voters approved commercial casinos in 2013.
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