Construction Underway For New York CasinoCrews Begin To Clear Trees In Town Of Thompson |
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Late last year, the state of New York picked three winners for new brick-and-mortar casinos in the state. This week, crews began clearing trees for a casino in the Sullivan County town of Thompson, in the Catskills 75 miles northwest of New York City, reported the Associated Press.
The 1,700 acre site will eventually be home to a $1.1 billion casino called Montreign Resort Casino at Adelaar, The Times Herald-Record reported. The developer is Empire Resorts.
The state hasn’t formally given a license to the project, but it reportedly is moving very quickly to complete the paperwork, along with background checks of the project’s key stakeholders.
“It’s amazing, like having a bab," a city official remarked about trees starting to come down in the apparently heavily wooded area. “First, you’re shocked and awed to find out. And then, it’s going to change your life.” The land is the grounds of the old Concord hotel.
If all goes as planned, the casino would open in mid-2017.
Before New York OK’d three commercial casinos upstate (it’s also thinking about a fourth), the Empire State already had tribal casinos and racinos.
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