w***w
发帖数: 6301 | 1 http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/13/10/22/n3991969.htm
纽约州长库默提出的2013年纽约上州博彩经济发展法案，其中包括修改宪法，允许至少
7家新的拉斯维加斯式的赌场建在纽约上州。纽约人将在11月5号普选时，同时对此宪法
修正案进行公投。
锡耶纳大学研究所（SIENA RESEARCH INSTITUTE）在10月进行民调的问题是：“你支持
还是反对通过一州宪法修正案，允许非印第安、拉斯维加斯风格的赌场建在纽约。”结
果显示：支持率占49%，反对者占45%。
当调查的问题换成11月5号公投时的问题：“你是否支持，允许立法授权7家赌场开设在
纽约州，目地是增加就业，把增加的收入，为学校提供更多资金，同时使地方政府可以
降低房产税。”结果显示，支持率增加到53％，而反对者则降到了40%。
有舆论认为公投的问题，措辞有偏导性，容易让人只考虑赌场带来的经济利益，而其负
面影响被忽略。然而，调查结果显示，53％的被调查者认为，公投的问题是公平的，有
41％的人认为不公平。
根据9月份的调查，过半数的纽约人认为赌场可以增加就业、增加政府税收。但是有55
％的被调查者同意，赌博会带来社会问题。除此之外，一个有趣的调查结果显示，超过
三分之二的选民，不希望看到有招妓丑闻在身的前州长斯必策明年竞选任何公职。 | T*********k
发帖数: 1621 | 2 Nonsense.
All those interest group has made a deal that won't open any table game
Casino near NYC for at least 5 years. Latest I heard is 7 years.
Heck, it took me 2.5 hours drive to Catskill, why I need to go there?
Tragic as a poker player in NY | w***w
发帖数: 6301 | 3 纽约州南部会有一个。这个应该在两小时以内。
“雖然選民將被徵詢是否授權興建七座賭場，但葛謨與州議員表示，他們將通過一項法
律，准許至少在未來七年，僅興建四座賭場，地點分別在凱茨奇爾地區(Catskills)、
奧伯尼地區(Albany)，以及與賓州邊界毗鄰的紐約州南部地區(Southern Tier)。”
http://city.mirrorbooks.com/news/html/68/n-90068.html | w***w
发帖数: 6301 | 4 关键不在于距离。
如果离纽约1.5到2小时有个赌场，有可能成为东部最大鱼塘。 | W********m
发帖数: 7793 | 5 Sands 和Parx 都在NYC 1.5-2小时内。
★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 7.8
【在 w***w 的大作中提到】
: 关键不在于距离。
: 如果离纽约1.5到2小时有个赌场，有可能成为东部最大鱼塘。
| w***w
发帖数: 6301 | 6 Sands太小了。
parx确实有不少broklyn的人过去。所以parx也是个大鱼塘。
南部这个离曼哈顿应该只有1小时左右。
【在 W********m 的大作中提到】
: Sands 和Parx 都在NYC 1.5-2小时内。
:
: ★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 7.8
| w***w
发帖数: 6301 | 7 还有NYC以后有可能在市内开poker club.
像洛杉矶一样。
洛杉矶不能开赌场，但是能开poker club。只能打poker。 | w***w
发帖数: 6301 | 8 http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/13/10/22/n3991969.htm
纽约州长库默提出的2013年纽约上州博彩经济发展法案，其中包括修改宪法，允许至少
7家新的拉斯维加斯式的赌场建在纽约上州。纽约人将在11月5号普选时，同时对此宪法
修正案进行公投。
锡耶纳大学研究所（SIENA RESEARCH INSTITUTE）在10月进行民调的问题是：“你支持
还是反对通过一州宪法修正案，允许非印第安、拉斯维加斯风格的赌场建在纽约。”结
果显示：支持率占49%，反对者占45%。
当调查的问题换成11月5号公投时的问题：“你是否支持，允许立法授权7家赌场开设在
纽约州，目地是增加就业，把增加的收入，为学校提供更多资金，同时使地方政府可以
降低房产税。”结果显示，支持率增加到53％，而反对者则降到了40%。
有舆论认为公投的问题，措辞有偏导性，容易让人只考虑赌场带来的经济利益，而其负
面影响被忽略。然而，调查结果显示，53％的被调查者认为，公投的问题是公平的，有
41％的人认为不公平。
根据9月份的调查，过半数的纽约人认为赌场可以增加就业、增加政府税收。但是有55
％的被调查者同意，赌博会带来社会问题。除此之外，一个有趣的调查结果显示，超过
三分之二的选民，不希望看到有招妓丑闻在身的前州长斯必策明年竞选任何公职。 | T*********k
发帖数: 1621 | 9 Nonsense.
All those interest group has made a deal that won't open any table game
Casino near NYC for at least 5 years. Latest I heard is 7 years.
Heck, it took me 2.5 hours drive to Catskill, why I need to go there?
Tragic as a poker player in NY | w***w
发帖数: 6301 | 10 纽约州南部会有一个。这个应该在两小时以内。
“雖然選民將被徵詢是否授權興建七座賭場，但葛謨與州議員表示，他們將通過一項法
律，准許至少在未來七年，僅興建四座賭場，地點分別在凱茨奇爾地區(Catskills)、
奧伯尼地區(Albany)，以及與賓州邊界毗鄰的紐約州南部地區(Southern Tier)。”
http://city.mirrorbooks.com/news/html/68/n-90068.html | | | w***w
发帖数: 6301 | 11 关键不在于距离。
如果离纽约1.5到2小时有个赌场，有可能成为东部最大鱼塘。 | W********m
发帖数: 7793 | 12 Sands 和Parx 都在NYC 1.5-2小时内。
★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 7.8
【在 w***w 的大作中提到】
: 关键不在于距离。
: 如果离纽约1.5到2小时有个赌场，有可能成为东部最大鱼塘。
| w***w
发帖数: 6301 | 13 Sands太小了。
parx确实有不少broklyn的人过去。所以parx也是个大鱼塘。
南部这个离曼哈顿应该只有1小时左右。
【在 W********m 的大作中提到】
: Sands 和Parx 都在NYC 1.5-2小时内。
:
: ★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 7.8
| w***w
发帖数: 6301 | 14 还有NYC以后有可能在市内开poker club.
像洛杉矶一样。
洛杉矶不能开赌场，但是能开poker club。只能打poker。 | w***w
发帖数: 6301 | 15 https://ny.usqiaobao.com/news/metro/35123-2013-11-05-07-44-07.html
今日公投纽州能否建赌场
发布于 2013-11-05, 周二 02:44
【侨报讯】在数月来关于是否允许在纽约修建7家拉斯维加斯那样的赌场，并修改纽约
赌博业法律的争论后，周二即将对此进行公投。
一家赌场将建在纽约州南部的宾厄汉姆附近，两个分别建在卡兹奇和孙河峡谷
，另一个建在奥尔巴尼的萨拉托加斯普林斯。七年后，一家赌场将建在纽约市。而一些
赌场业者说法律将在不久就允许在纽约开赌场。
葛谟并不想限定地点，说这应该由赌场开发商自己决定。他的预算办公室说，新建
赌场能增加四亿三千万的税收，其中两亿三千八百万用于教育，其余可以发展赌场周边
社区，弥补税收减少后的公共安全和社会性支出的花费。
在数年来关于是否扩大赌博业的争论后，一周前的一项民调显示，60%的纽约市民
都希望参加今天的投票，但他们的分歧依然很大。
保守组织和天主教派认为葛谟所言夸大其词，如果开赌场，社会将为此付出是昂贵
而深远的巨大代价。
而葛谟并不理会这些预料中的反对，他向依据联邦法律开设五家赌场的印第安土著
和用视频老虎机投注的赛马业保证，他们不会受到新赌场的竞争。
如果投票结果拒绝开设赌场，法律将自动批准更多的视频老虎机中心。
据称，开设赌场将在纽约州创造超过一万个高薪工作。在失业率达18%，工业和房
地产低迷的情况下，这十分诱人。
10月份的一项民调曾经显示，如果赌场重新修改商业规则，投票支持者将高达55%
。 | w***w
发帖数: 6301 | 16 http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/politics&id=9313
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Voters are holding the cards as to whether New York will
authorize seven Las Vegas-style casinos following months of debate over the
benefits of expanded gambling and the rewording of Tuesday's ballot question.
One casino would be in the Southern Tier near Binghamton, two in the
Catskills and Mid-Hudson Valley region, and another in the Saratoga Springs-
Albany area. A New York City casino would be built in seven years, although
some casino operators say the law could allow for a New York City casino
sooner.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo didn't allow specific sites to be chosen, saying that
would be up to the casino developers. His budget office says the state would
take in $430 million in new casino revenue, with $238 million for education
in a repeat of the strategy that approved lottery games. The rest would go
to communities near casinos to compensate for public safety and social costs
and for tax reduction.
Cuomo began placing automatic "robo-calls" Monday to voters urging their
support. The calls were paid for by the business-backed lobbying group NY
Jobs Now, which had held news conferences statewide touting bipartisan
support by local government officials. The group wouldn't say how many calls
were being made or how much they cost.
After New Yorkers have spent years split over the notion of expanding casino
gambling, a Siena College-New York Times poll released a week ago found 60
percent of New York City voters - who are expected to dominate Tuesday's
turnout - support the question. However, in that poll they were still split
over whether voters wanted a casino in New York City, which would be
authorized in Tuesday's referendum.
Critics including good-government groups, the state Conservative Party and
the state's Catholic bishops argue that Cuomo's estimates of benefits are
inflated and that the social cost to families and communities will be
profound. They also criticized what they called the referendum's unusually
rosy, one-side view of casinos.
Opponents have little money to combat the multimillion-dollar advertising
campaigns of a powerful mix of business, gambling and union interests. And
Cuomo had sidelined much of the expected opposition.
He assured Native American tribes that they wouldn't face competition to
their five casinos now operating under federal law. Cuomo also assured no
competition to horse racing centers with video slot machines and gave them a
chance to pursue casinos. The Board of Elections also moved the casino
referendum to the advantageous top ballot position.
If voters reject casino gambling, the law will automatically approve more
video slot machine centers.
Supporters say casinos will recapture more than $1 billion a year now spent
at casinos out of state.
"Proposal No. 1 would start to bring that money back to New York and create
over 10,000 good-paying new jobs in New York state," states one of the
statewide TV ads paid for by the NY Jobs Now Committee and featuring a hard-
hatted everyman.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Scott Carlsen, supervisor of the
town of Wawarsing, said, "When you're at 18 percent unemployment, you've
lost your industry, the housing market has really taken a hit around here,
the potential of 1,500 jobs - it can be a game changer."
State Republican Party spokesman David Laska countered that it's "
disappointing that Andrew Cuomo's best guess as to how to promote economic
growth in upstate New York is apparently casino gambling."
The key to the outcome may be in the referendum's wording.
The Cuomo administration rewrote the referendum from the straightforward
form submitted by the attorney general's office. The Board of Elections
added disputed promises that casinos would bring more school aid, jobs and
tax breaks, without mentioning the opponents' concerns about crime,
addiction or the declining casino market that has forced some states to
subsidize casinos.
An October Siena College poll tested the impact of the rewording. Voters
statewide were split on casino gambling in general. But when shown the
promises in the rewording, approval reached 55 percent for the first time.
State Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long called the casino effort "the
biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the taxpayers of the state of New York,"
while The New York Times called the rewording "advocacy, pure and simple."
The critical wording was unsuccessfully challenged in court by Brooklyn
lawyer Eric Snyder. The state Board of Elections won on a technicality that
Snyder didn't file his lawsuit by the Aug. 19 deadline, although the state
didn't post the rosy wording until Aug. 21. Powerful Republican Sen. John
DeFrancisco is pushing a bill to prohibit rewording.
"I hope the voters send the Board of Elections the message that it's wrong
to stack the deck," Snyder said. | w***w
发帖数: 6301 | 17 http://www.worldjournal.com/view/full_news/23987992/article-%E5
公投通過 紐約州增建7賭場
美聯社／紐約州奧伯尼5日電
紐約州選民5日通過州憲修正案，授權興建七座拉斯維加式賭場，其中一座賭場將坐落
紐約市。該議題也是對增加就業機會、開放賭博付出社會成本進行公投。
在60%的開票中，此項准許增建賭場的修正案，獲得57%選民的支持，43%反對。此案通
過也是紐約州州長葛謨的重大勝利，葛謨建議興建賭場，以協助振興長久以來財務困頓
的上州地區。
增建的七座賭場中的頭四座，將建於上州，地點由開發商挑選。建於紐約市的賭場，預
定在七年內完工，在紐約市郊區也可能增建更多賭場，部分賭場業者則認為，依據法律
，增建賭場工程可能可以更早進行。
葛謨5日表示：「這項公投結果可使每年在鄰州消費的數以億計花費流回紐約，增加的
收入則可資助紐約州學校，降低房地產稅，並使賭博業獲得更好的規範。」
但紐約州保守黨、天主教主教等批評者警告，葛謨的期望言過其實，而增建賭場加諸家
庭、社區的社會成本卻很沉重。
葛謨這項主張獲得了可蒙受其惠的各團體支持，其中包括可藉此獲利的企業、可因興建
工程和教育補助增加受惠的工會。這位民主黨州長並認為，此公投議題不僅關乎賭博，
並可藉此爭回紐約州民每年花在康州、賓州、新澤西州和加拿大賭場的12億元消費支出。
葛謨的預算辦公室表示，賭場新收入中，州府分得4億3000萬元，將撥給教育經費2億
3800萬元，其他則由賭場鄰近社區分享，以彌補其公共安全和社會支出，並將資助這些
地區減稅。
該案的落實將交由州長的博弈委員會決定，該委員會將與賭場業者研商方案。賭場興建
地點包括一座在紐約州賓漢頓(Binghamton)附近、兩座在凱茨奇爾(Catskills)和哈德
遜河谷中部地區，及一座在薩拉托加泉／奧伯尼地區(Saratoga Springs-Albany)。
Read more: 世界新聞網-北美華文新聞、華商資訊 - 公投通過 紐約州增建7賭場 | f*****g
发帖数: 15860 | 18 congrats!
【在 w***w 的大作中提到】
: http://www.worldjournal.com/view/full_news/23987992/article-%E5
: 公投通過 紐約州增建7賭場
: 美聯社／紐約州奧伯尼5日電
: 紐約州選民5日通過州憲修正案，授權興建七座拉斯維加式賭場，其中一座賭場將坐落
: 紐約市。該議題也是對增加就業機會、開放賭博付出社會成本進行公投。
: 在60%的開票中，此項准許增建賭場的修正案，獲得57%選民的支持，43%反對。此案通
: 過也是紐約州州長葛謨的重大勝利，葛謨建議興建賭場，以協助振興長久以來財務困頓
: 的上州地區。
: 增建的七座賭場中的頭四座，將建於上州，地點由開發商挑選。建於紐約市的賭場，預
: 定在七年內完工，在紐約市郊區也可能增建更多賭場，部分賭場業者則認為，依據法律
| w***w
发帖数: 6301 | 19 A casino in Orange County？
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140222
By Jessica DiNapoli
Times Herald-Record
Published: 2:00 AM - 02/22/14
Orange County is suddenly in the running for a casino, with national
hospitality companies hoping to secure a state gambling license focusing on
the area near Woodbury Common Premium Outlets.
Three major players in the industry have made multiple site visits to
locations in Orange County that they're targeting for a potential casino,
County Executive Steve Neuhaus said Friday.
Casino developers have met with officials from the Village of Woodbury in
the past week, and, over the past couple days, have inquired with the
Village of Harriman. The City of Newburgh is also in the mix, said Interim
City Manager James Slaughter.
The Cordish Cos. and Penn National Gaming Inc., large-scale casino
developers, are considering the Village of Woodbury, said Mayor Michael
Queenan. He sat in on a meeting with Cordish last week, and met Friday
morning with Penn.
Cordish is proposing a hotel, full casino and conference center, and is
considering building the complex on a 130-acre site surrounding the Harriman
train station, about three miles from Woodbury Common. The company has
developed Hard Rock-themed hotels and casinos in Hollywood, Fla., and Tampa,
Fla.
It has also worked with Simon Property Group, the owner of Woodbury Common,
on a casino at another one of Simon's malls in Hanover, Md. That casino is
called Maryland Live! and has 4,300 slots and electronic table games, 177
live games and 52 poker tables.
Cordish and Simon did not immediately return phone calls and emails Friday.
The property around the Harriman train station is zoned for high-density,
transit-centered development featuring restaurants and housing.
Queenan said the train station is a big draw for the casino developers.
"The site would be ideal for them," he said.
Penn inquired about the Woodbury area in general, Queenan said. He said that
the land surrounding the train station was one of their best options. Penn
owns and operates more than 20 horse racing and casino gambling facilities
across the country, including the M Resort Spa Casino in Las Vegas.
Queenan was shocked when he heard that casino developers wanted to land in
his municipality, and in Orange County at all. Until the past few weeks,
Orange County hadn't been seriously discussed as a possible host for a
casino, with the regional focus instead on plans in Sullivan and Ulster
counties.
But, Orange County is included in the Catskills/Hudson Valley region, one of
the three upstate areas that could host a casino.
It's also the area most expect will get two of the four initial licenses the
state will give out.
Queenan still has to discuss the idea with his trustees.
"This is an opportunity that may never come along again," he said.
Stephen Welle, the mayor of Harriman, said the former Nepera plant would
work for a casino resort in his municipality. The plant is 130 acres and
adjacent to the Harriman train station land.
Developers started calling Welle over the past couple of days, and he told
them he would have to discuss the idea with his board.
Casino projects will have to move on an aggressive timetable, Neuhaus said.
The state will issue a request for casino proposals in March, and Gov.
Andrew Cuomo said selections will be made in the fall.
Neuhaus said that he is in favor of a casino in Orange County as long as the
host community is on board.
"It won't happen without support from the community," he said.
A casino would provide huge financial benefits to the county and the
municipality it lands in, Neuhaus said.
"The revenues are staggering," he said, adding that many of the casino
developers he has spoken with would assist schools significantly.
Slaughter said the City of Newburgh, which has had serious financial woes,
will consider the possibility of permitting a casino in its confines.
A casino in Orange County would hurt a possible casino in Sullivan County,
Neuhaus said. New York City residents would have a much shorter drive to
southern Orange County than they would to proposed casinos in Sullivan and
Ulster counties.
Michael Treanor, the CEO of Claremont Partners, which plans to build a
casino at the Nevele property outside Ellenville, said Orange County does
not have a good chance of getting a gambling resort. The act that allows the
licensing of casinos is meant to help upstate New York, Treanor said.
"Orange is not upstate," he said, adding that the county already has a top
tourism destination — Woodbury Common. "There are already 10-mile traffic
jams in Woodbury on Black Friday. Do you think they want more?"
But Treanor did admit that the economics of putting a casino in Orange
County are compelling. | T*********k
发帖数: 1621 | 20 That will be good. A Casino near Woodbury? Even Chinese fish can play there
while their wives shopping at Woodbury.
Sounds too good to be true. You know how many interest group and politics
will play out in this country.
on
【在 w***w 的大作中提到】
: A casino in Orange County？
: http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140222
: By Jessica DiNapoli
: Times Herald-Record
: Published: 2:00 AM - 02/22/14
: Orange County is suddenly in the running for a casino, with national
: hospitality companies hoping to secure a state gambling license focusing on
: the area near Woodbury Common Premium Outlets.
: Three major players in the industry have made multiple site visits to
: locations in Orange County that they're targeting for a potential casino,
| | | w***w
发帖数: 6301 | 21 不知道内幕，所以不知道这个有多大可能。
赌场离纽约近一些顾客会多很多，多赚很多钱。
但是不是违反州议会法律？ | W********m
发帖数: 7793 | 22 Woodbury 离NYC 也不是很近.
★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 8.6 | w***w
发帖数: 6301 | 23 州法律不允许（4年内）在NYC开赌场。
所以这是最近的了。
如果这个地方不成，其他地方就要远很多。 | w***w
发帖数: 6301 | 24 https://ny.usqiaobao.com/news/metro/35123-2013-11-05-07-44-07.html
今日公投纽州能否建赌场
发布于 2013-11-05, 周二 02:44
【侨报讯】在数月来关于是否允许在纽约修建7家拉斯维加斯那样的赌场，并修改纽约
赌博业法律的争论后，周二即将对此进行公投。
一家赌场将建在纽约州南部的宾厄汉姆附近，两个分别建在卡兹奇和孙河峡谷
，另一个建在奥尔巴尼的萨拉托加斯普林斯。七年后，一家赌场将建在纽约市。而一些
赌场业者说法律将在不久就允许在纽约开赌场。
葛谟并不想限定地点，说这应该由赌场开发商自己决定。他的预算办公室说，新建
赌场能增加四亿三千万的税收，其中两亿三千八百万用于教育，其余可以发展赌场周边
社区，弥补税收减少后的公共安全和社会性支出的花费。
在数年来关于是否扩大赌博业的争论后，一周前的一项民调显示，60%的纽约市民
都希望参加今天的投票，但他们的分歧依然很大。
保守组织和天主教派认为葛谟所言夸大其词，如果开赌场，社会将为此付出是昂贵
而深远的巨大代价。
而葛谟并不理会这些预料中的反对，他向依据联邦法律开设五家赌场的印第安土著
和用视频老虎机投注的赛马业保证，他们不会受到新赌场的竞争。
如果投票结果拒绝开设赌场，法律将自动批准更多的视频老虎机中心。
据称，开设赌场将在纽约州创造超过一万个高薪工作。在失业率达18%，工业和房
地产低迷的情况下，这十分诱人。
10月份的一项民调曾经显示，如果赌场重新修改商业规则，投票支持者将高达55%
。 | w***w
发帖数: 6301 | 25 http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/politics&id=9313
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Voters are holding the cards as to whether New York will
authorize seven Las Vegas-style casinos following months of debate over the
benefits of expanded gambling and the rewording of Tuesday's ballot question.
One casino would be in the Southern Tier near Binghamton, two in the
Catskills and Mid-Hudson Valley region, and another in the Saratoga Springs-
Albany area. A New York City casino would be built in seven years, although
some casino operators say the law could allow for a New York City casino
sooner.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo didn't allow specific sites to be chosen, saying that
would be up to the casino developers. His budget office says the state would
take in $430 million in new casino revenue, with $238 million for education
in a repeat of the strategy that approved lottery games. The rest would go
to communities near casinos to compensate for public safety and social costs
and for tax reduction.
Cuomo began placing automatic "robo-calls" Monday to voters urging their
support. The calls were paid for by the business-backed lobbying group NY
Jobs Now, which had held news conferences statewide touting bipartisan
support by local government officials. The group wouldn't say how many calls
were being made or how much they cost.
After New Yorkers have spent years split over the notion of expanding casino
gambling, a Siena College-New York Times poll released a week ago found 60
percent of New York City voters - who are expected to dominate Tuesday's
turnout - support the question. However, in that poll they were still split
over whether voters wanted a casino in New York City, which would be
authorized in Tuesday's referendum.
Critics including good-government groups, the state Conservative Party and
the state's Catholic bishops argue that Cuomo's estimates of benefits are
inflated and that the social cost to families and communities will be
profound. They also criticized what they called the referendum's unusually
rosy, one-side view of casinos.
Opponents have little money to combat the multimillion-dollar advertising
campaigns of a powerful mix of business, gambling and union interests. And
Cuomo had sidelined much of the expected opposition.
He assured Native American tribes that they wouldn't face competition to
their five casinos now operating under federal law. Cuomo also assured no
competition to horse racing centers with video slot machines and gave them a
chance to pursue casinos. The Board of Elections also moved the casino
referendum to the advantageous top ballot position.
If voters reject casino gambling, the law will automatically approve more
video slot machine centers.
Supporters say casinos will recapture more than $1 billion a year now spent
at casinos out of state.
"Proposal No. 1 would start to bring that money back to New York and create
over 10,000 good-paying new jobs in New York state," states one of the
statewide TV ads paid for by the NY Jobs Now Committee and featuring a hard-
hatted everyman.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Scott Carlsen, supervisor of the
town of Wawarsing, said, "When you're at 18 percent unemployment, you've
lost your industry, the housing market has really taken a hit around here,
the potential of 1,500 jobs - it can be a game changer."
State Republican Party spokesman David Laska countered that it's "
disappointing that Andrew Cuomo's best guess as to how to promote economic
growth in upstate New York is apparently casino gambling."
The key to the outcome may be in the referendum's wording.
The Cuomo administration rewrote the referendum from the straightforward
form submitted by the attorney general's office. The Board of Elections
added disputed promises that casinos would bring more school aid, jobs and
tax breaks, without mentioning the opponents' concerns about crime,
addiction or the declining casino market that has forced some states to
subsidize casinos.
An October Siena College poll tested the impact of the rewording. Voters
statewide were split on casino gambling in general. But when shown the
promises in the rewording, approval reached 55 percent for the first time.
State Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long called the casino effort "the
biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the taxpayers of the state of New York,"
while The New York Times called the rewording "advocacy, pure and simple."
The critical wording was unsuccessfully challenged in court by Brooklyn
lawyer Eric Snyder. The state Board of Elections won on a technicality that
Snyder didn't file his lawsuit by the Aug. 19 deadline, although the state
didn't post the rosy wording until Aug. 21. Powerful Republican Sen. John
DeFrancisco is pushing a bill to prohibit rewording.
"I hope the voters send the Board of Elections the message that it's wrong
to stack the deck," Snyder said. | w***w
发帖数: 6301 | 26 http://www.worldjournal.com/view/full_news/23987992/article-%E5
公投通過 紐約州增建7賭場
美聯社／紐約州奧伯尼5日電
紐約州選民5日通過州憲修正案，授權興建七座拉斯維加式賭場，其中一座賭場將坐落
紐約市。該議題也是對增加就業機會、開放賭博付出社會成本進行公投。
在60%的開票中，此項准許增建賭場的修正案，獲得57%選民的支持，43%反對。此案通
過也是紐約州州長葛謨的重大勝利，葛謨建議興建賭場，以協助振興長久以來財務困頓
的上州地區。
增建的七座賭場中的頭四座，將建於上州，地點由開發商挑選。建於紐約市的賭場，預
定在七年內完工，在紐約市郊區也可能增建更多賭場，部分賭場業者則認為，依據法律
，增建賭場工程可能可以更早進行。
葛謨5日表示：「這項公投結果可使每年在鄰州消費的數以億計花費流回紐約，增加的
收入則可資助紐約州學校，降低房地產稅，並使賭博業獲得更好的規範。」
但紐約州保守黨、天主教主教等批評者警告，葛謨的期望言過其實，而增建賭場加諸家
庭、社區的社會成本卻很沉重。
葛謨這項主張獲得了可蒙受其惠的各團體支持，其中包括可藉此獲利的企業、可因興建
工程和教育補助增加受惠的工會。這位民主黨州長並認為，此公投議題不僅關乎賭博，
並可藉此爭回紐約州民每年花在康州、賓州、新澤西州和加拿大賭場的12億元消費支出。
葛謨的預算辦公室表示，賭場新收入中，州府分得4億3000萬元，將撥給教育經費2億
3800萬元，其他則由賭場鄰近社區分享，以彌補其公共安全和社會支出，並將資助這些
地區減稅。
該案的落實將交由州長的博弈委員會決定，該委員會將與賭場業者研商方案。賭場興建
地點包括一座在紐約州賓漢頓(Binghamton)附近、兩座在凱茨奇爾(Catskills)和哈德
遜河谷中部地區，及一座在薩拉托加泉／奧伯尼地區(Saratoga Springs-Albany)。
Read more: 世界新聞網-北美華文新聞、華商資訊 - 公投通過 紐約州增建7賭場 | f*****g
发帖数: 15860 | 27 congrats!
【在 w***w 的大作中提到】
: http://www.worldjournal.com/view/full_news/23987992/article-%E5
: 公投通過 紐約州增建7賭場
: 美聯社／紐約州奧伯尼5日電
: 紐約州選民5日通過州憲修正案，授權興建七座拉斯維加式賭場，其中一座賭場將坐落
: 紐約市。該議題也是對增加就業機會、開放賭博付出社會成本進行公投。
: 在60%的開票中，此項准許增建賭場的修正案，獲得57%選民的支持，43%反對。此案通
: 過也是紐約州州長葛謨的重大勝利，葛謨建議興建賭場，以協助振興長久以來財務困頓
: 的上州地區。
: 增建的七座賭場中的頭四座，將建於上州，地點由開發商挑選。建於紐約市的賭場，預
: 定在七年內完工，在紐約市郊區也可能增建更多賭場，部分賭場業者則認為，依據法律
| w***w
发帖数: 6301 | 28 A casino in Orange County？
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140222
By Jessica DiNapoli
Times Herald-Record
Published: 2:00 AM - 02/22/14
Orange County is suddenly in the running for a casino, with national
hospitality companies hoping to secure a state gambling license focusing on
the area near Woodbury Common Premium Outlets.
Three major players in the industry have made multiple site visits to
locations in Orange County that they're targeting for a potential casino,
County Executive Steve Neuhaus said Friday.
Casino developers have met with officials from the Village of Woodbury in
the past week, and, over the past couple days, have inquired with the
Village of Harriman. The City of Newburgh is also in the mix, said Interim
City Manager James Slaughter.
The Cordish Cos. and Penn National Gaming Inc., large-scale casino
developers, are considering the Village of Woodbury, said Mayor Michael
Queenan. He sat in on a meeting with Cordish last week, and met Friday
morning with Penn.
Cordish is proposing a hotel, full casino and conference center, and is
considering building the complex on a 130-acre site surrounding the Harriman
train station, about three miles from Woodbury Common. The company has
developed Hard Rock-themed hotels and casinos in Hollywood, Fla., and Tampa,
Fla.
It has also worked with Simon Property Group, the owner of Woodbury Common,
on a casino at another one of Simon's malls in Hanover, Md. That casino is
called Maryland Live! and has 4,300 slots and electronic table games, 177
live games and 52 poker tables.
Cordish and Simon did not immediately return phone calls and emails Friday.
The property around the Harriman train station is zoned for high-density,
transit-centered development featuring restaurants and housing.
Queenan said the train station is a big draw for the casino developers.
"The site would be ideal for them," he said.
Penn inquired about the Woodbury area in general, Queenan said. He said that
the land surrounding the train station was one of their best options. Penn
owns and operates more than 20 horse racing and casino gambling facilities
across the country, including the M Resort Spa Casino in Las Vegas.
Queenan was shocked when he heard that casino developers wanted to land in
his municipality, and in Orange County at all. Until the past few weeks,
Orange County hadn't been seriously discussed as a possible host for a
casino, with the regional focus instead on plans in Sullivan and Ulster
counties.
But, Orange County is included in the Catskills/Hudson Valley region, one of
the three upstate areas that could host a casino.
It's also the area most expect will get two of the four initial licenses the
state will give out.
Queenan still has to discuss the idea with his trustees.
"This is an opportunity that may never come along again," he said.
Stephen Welle, the mayor of Harriman, said the former Nepera plant would
work for a casino resort in his municipality. The plant is 130 acres and
adjacent to the Harriman train station land.
Developers started calling Welle over the past couple of days, and he told
them he would have to discuss the idea with his board.
Casino projects will have to move on an aggressive timetable, Neuhaus said.
The state will issue a request for casino proposals in March, and Gov.
Andrew Cuomo said selections will be made in the fall.
Neuhaus said that he is in favor of a casino in Orange County as long as the
host community is on board.
"It won't happen without support from the community," he said.
A casino would provide huge financial benefits to the county and the
municipality it lands in, Neuhaus said.
"The revenues are staggering," he said, adding that many of the casino
developers he has spoken with would assist schools significantly.
Slaughter said the City of Newburgh, which has had serious financial woes,
will consider the possibility of permitting a casino in its confines.
A casino in Orange County would hurt a possible casino in Sullivan County,
Neuhaus said. New York City residents would have a much shorter drive to
southern Orange County than they would to proposed casinos in Sullivan and
Ulster counties.
Michael Treanor, the CEO of Claremont Partners, which plans to build a
casino at the Nevele property outside Ellenville, said Orange County does
not have a good chance of getting a gambling resort. The act that allows the
licensing of casinos is meant to help upstate New York, Treanor said.
"Orange is not upstate," he said, adding that the county already has a top
tourism destination — Woodbury Common. "There are already 10-mile traffic
jams in Woodbury on Black Friday. Do you think they want more?"
But Treanor did admit that the economics of putting a casino in Orange
County are compelling. | T*********k
发帖数: 1621 | 29 That will be good. A Casino near Woodbury? Even Chinese fish can play there
while their wives shopping at Woodbury.
Sounds too good to be true. You know how many interest group and politics
will play out in this country.
on
【在 w***w 的大作中提到】
: A casino in Orange County？
: http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140222
: By Jessica DiNapoli
: Times Herald-Record
: Published: 2:00 AM - 02/22/14
: Orange County is suddenly in the running for a casino, with national
: hospitality companies hoping to secure a state gambling license focusing on
: the area near Woodbury Common Premium Outlets.
: Three major players in the industry have made multiple site visits to
: locations in Orange County that they're targeting for a potential casino,
| w***w
发帖数: 6301 | 30 不知道内幕，所以不知道这个有多大可能。
赌场离纽约近一些顾客会多很多，多赚很多钱。
但是不是违反州议会法律？ | | | W********m
发帖数: 7793 | 31 Woodbury 离NYC 也不是很近.
★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 8.6 | w***w
发帖数: 6301 | 32 州法律不允许（4年内）在NYC开赌场。
所以这是最近的了。
如果这个地方不成，其他地方就要远很多。 | w***w
发帖数: 6301 | 33 http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/04/24/4077918/22-groups-bidding
22 Companies Apply to Open 4 Casinos in New York State
ALBANY — The panel charged with choosing the locations of four new casinos
in New York State said on Thursday that 22 companies had submitted proposals
, each paying an initial $1 million application fee, in the first step of
what is expected to be an intense bidding process.
The list of applicants released by the New York Gaming Facility Location
Board provided only the names of the companies that had submitted the fee.
But details about some of the projects have been circulating for months,
with the late entry of several major players, including Caesars
Entertainment. Caesars, which operates 53 casinos worldwide, said earlier
this week that it was planning an entertainment complex worth more than $750
million about 50 miles north of Midtown Manhattan.
On Wednesday, the Genting Group, a major figure in the international
gambling industry, said that it too would be vying for a license, promising
to build a “destination resort” at one of several locations the company is
looking at in the Hudson Valley and Catskill regions. Genting is
considering a site in Tuxedo, N.Y., about 40 miles from Manhattan, making it
the closest location to New York City under review.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has promoted the casinos as an economic development
tool for upstate communities that are suffering financially, and in remarks
on Wednesday, he seemed pleased with the interest from companies thus far.
“The cynics said, ‘You’re not going to get the applications, people are
not going to apply, the time is done, gaming is over the curve,’ ” said Mr
. Cuomo, a Democrat. “I think you’ve actually had more interest and it’s
gone better than people suspected it might early on.”
The pace of the bidding process will be brisk. Applicants are to attend a
required conference with the location board in Albany on Wednesday. The
meeting, which will be open to the public, is meant to allow questions from
applicants about the process of gaining operating licenses.
Within 10 days of that meeting, the state is to inform applicants of the
minimum capital investment required for their projects to be considered, a
figure that may well vary, depending on the region in which the casino would
be built. A large capital investment requirement might whittle down the
number of bidders.
each paying an initial $1 million application fee, in the first step of
what is expected to be an intense bidding process.
The list of applicants released by the New York Gaming Facility Location
Board provided only the names of the companies that had submitted the fee.
But details about some of the projects have been circulating for months,
with the late entry of several major players, including Caesars
Entertainment. Caesars, which operates 53 casinos worldwide, said earlier
this week that it was planning an entertainment complex worth more than $750
million about 50 miles north of Midtown Manhattan.
On Wednesday, the Genting Group, a major figure in the international
gambling industry, said that it too would be vying for a license, promising
to build a “destination resort” at one of several locations the company is
looking at in the Hudson Valley and Catskill regions. Genting is
considering a site in Tuxedo, N.Y., about 40 miles from Manhattan, making it
the closest location to New York City under review.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has promoted the casinos as an economic development
tool for upstate communities that are suffering financially, and in remarks
on Wednesday, he seemed pleased with the interest from companies thus far.
“The cynics said, ‘You’re not going to get the applications, people are
not going to apply, the time is done, gaming is over the curve,’ ” said Mr
. Cuomo, a Democrat. “I think you’ve actually had more interest and it’s
gone better than people suspected it might early on.”
The pace of the bidding process will be brisk. Applicants are to attend a
required conference with the location board in Albany on Wednesday. The
meeting, which will be open to the public, is meant to allow questions from
applicants about the process of gaining operating licenses.
Within 10 days of that meeting, the state is to inform applicants of the
minimum capital investment required for their projects to be considered, a
figure that may well vary, depending on the region in which the casino would
be built. A large capital investment requirement might whittle down the
number of bidders.
New York is already home to five upstate Indian casinos and nine racetracks
with electronic slot machine parlors. The four new casinos will be allowed
in three regions: the Catskills and the Hudson Valley, which includes Orange
, Sullivan and Ulster Counties; the Saratoga-Albany region; and an L-shape
region in central New York, running from Binghamton north to the Canadian
border.
Of the applicants announced on Thursday, many seemed to be angling for the
Catskills or the southern Hudson Valley, where developers say it would be
easier to draw the residents of New York City and its suburbs, and the tens
of millions of tourists who flock to Manhattan every year.
The list included such famed — and faded — Catskill resorts as the Nevele
in Ellenville, where developers envision a $450 million casino resort, and
the former Grossinger’s Resort in Liberty, where a New York real estate
developer and the company that owns the Foxwoods casino in Connecticut would
like to operate.
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Developers are also interested in opening casinos at the Nevele, a resort in
the Catskills that closed in 2009. Credit Nathaniel Brooks for The New York
Times
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Farther upstate, the bidders are promising full-scale gambling — including
table games like craps and roulette — in an assortment of locales,
including Tioga Downs, a harness racing track in Nichols, west of Binghamton
; a site near Howe Caverns, a subterranean tourist attraction in Schoharie
County; and a patch of scruffy farmland off Exit 41 of the New York State
Thruway, where a $350 million project is proposed.
The location board has said that the purpose of the $1 million fee is to
offset the costs of vetting the applicants, and that “unexpended funds”
would be returned.
Formal bids on the casinos are due on June 30, with the board expected to
make final decisions by early fall. Applications are to be evaluated on a
number of weighted factors, including economic activity (70 percent), local
impact (20 percent) and “work force enhancement” (10 percent), a broad
category that will measure plans on a variety of issues, including training
programs for the unemployed and addressing problem gambling.
Debate over the locations of the casinos is likely to intensify. Some
communities have openly objected to the possibility of more gambling in
their towns. In Saratoga Springs, developers at the Saratoga Casino and
Raceway recently abandoned plans to expand their operations to table games,
after residents and the City Council objected. Instead, the company will
focus its plans on a site just east of Albany, where it would like to build
a $300 million operation; the company also has its eyes on a location closer
to New York City, in Newburgh, at the intersection of Interstate 84 and the
Thruway.
The state’s voters authorized the new casinos last fall with a referendum
that suggested new casinos could be central to “promoting job growth,
increasing aid to schools and permitting local governments to lower property
taxes.” That language was contested in court as being slanted in an overly
positive way, but was ultimately upheld, and 57 percent of voters approved
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