$1 billion casino resort with Hard Rock<\/a>, says he doesn’t want the gaming expansion issue presented to voters again until he’s sure it has the adequate support needed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n“I would not want to see it back on the ballot unless we know we\u2019re going to win,” said Gural. Sweeney predicted last year that the subject won’t be on the ballot again. “I don’t see any way where it comes back,” the state senate president explained. “It was crushed.”<\/p>\n
Gural Dominating NYC<\/b><\/h2>\n
Despite not receiving authorization to transform his Meadowlands racetrack into a casino resort, Gural \u2013 a longtime New York real estate developer \u2013 isn’t hanging his head.<\/p>\n
New Jersey authorized sports betting after winning its Supreme Court case last May. Along with Atlantic City casinos, Gural’s Meadowlands and the Monmouth Park racetrack have both received approval from the state to incorporate sportsbooks at the facilities.<\/p>\n
New York lawmakers have opted to allow the four upstate commercial casinos to soon begin taking sports wagers, but Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) said recently that no downstate casinos will be approved before 2023, and he’s not budging on the mobile sports betting prohibition. Gural owns Tioga Downs, one of the four upstate New York casinos.<\/strong><\/p>\nWith the Meadowlands, Gural has a rather large sports betting monopoly on the New York City and North Jersey region.<\/p>\n
“New York did me such a favor,” Gural declared last summer. “That leaves me the entirety of New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Atlantic City will retain its monopoly on land-based commercial casino gambling in New Jersey for the time being. Speaking with the Press of Atlantic City, New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D) explains that the success of internet gambling and rollout of sports betting doesn’t provide reason to bring brick-and-mortar casinos north. Online gambling continues […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":101348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,13],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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