A key group board rejected a bid to construct a glittering $12 billion on line casino complicated in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards — a possible demise blow for the challenge.
Group Board 4 — which represents the Hudson Yards neighborhood — voted unanimously Monday evening in opposition to approving a zoning change to permit the challenge by Associated Corporations and Wynn to proceed.
Underneath the town’s Uniformed Land Use Process, the native board has a proper to weigh in on the zoning change, although the vote is advisory.
In the end, the Metropolis Council should log off together with metropolis planners in Mayor Eric Adams’ administration.
Opponents had been blunt and withering of their criticism of the challenge, which might abut The Excessive Line.
Joshua David, co-founder of The Excessive Line and former member of CB4, testified that the challenge “reeks of greed and disregard for the community.”
“A carefully planned mixed-use neighborhood is wiped out for a garish Las Vegas-style monstrosity that has no place on Manhattan’s West Side,” mentioned David, who has lived in Chelsea for 38 years.
“If we wanted to live in Las Vegas,” he mentioned, “we would live in Las Vegas.”
The plan options an 80-story tower overlooking the Hudson River that might home a gaming facility and lodge.
Workplace buildings, house towers and a spacious 5.6-acre park would encompass the gleaming on line casino skyscraper.
However Mates of The Excessive Line, which spearheaded the opposition, claimed the towers would forged shadows over the beloved elevated park and negatively impression the world.
The Associated Corporations/Wynn challenge is one in every of 4 proposed on line casino bids that have to get land use modifications accredited by the town earlier than even being thought of by state gaming regulators.
The others embody Mets billionaire proprietor Steve Cohen’s bid to construct an $8 billion casino-entertainment complicated subsequent to Citi Discipline; the Thor Equities’ consortium to erect a on line casino in Coney Island; and Bally’s proposed on line casino subsequent to its golf course in The Bronx’s Ferry Level.
In its letter to Metropolis Planning Director Dan Garodnick, CB4 mentioned the challenge slashes about 4,000 deliberate residential models and the environmental impression assertion confirmed “catastrophic traffic and air quality impacts on our neighborhoods…. This proposal simply isn’t a fit for this site.”
Mates of The Excessive Line government director Alan van Capelle applauded the board’s rejection of the on line casino complicated that “would do permanent damage to the High Line experience.”
The Publish reached out to Associated Corporations for remark.
In the meantime, two present race observe slots parlors — Genting’s Resorts World New York Metropolis at Aqueduct and MGM Resorts Worldwide’s Empire Metropolis in Yonkers — are additionally in search of licenses to supply stay desk video games.
Different bidders with chips on the desk vying for a state on line casino license embody: Las Vegas Sands challenge on the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum hub in Uniondale; The SL Inexperienced/Caesar’s Leisure/Jay-Z Roc Nation $4 billion proposal in Occasions Sq.; the Stefan Soloviev and Mohegan Solar challenge alongside the East River and the Silverstein Properties/Greenwood Gaming and Leisure plan for a on line casino at West forty first Road and eleventh Avenue north of the Jacob Javits Heart.
