The Coney Casino Secures First NYC Community Board Backing, but With Caveat
The Coney Casino & Resort has secured the first-class honours degree backup from a New House of York City Community Board, quasi-government agencies that service inwards advisory functions only. However, there’s a caveat to the $3 1000000000 entertainment territory proposed for Coney Island receiving such public support.
Last week, Brooklyn’s Community Board 11 voted nem con to endorse The Coney development. The 20-0 voter turnout came after a public meeting where residents soft overwhelming bread and butter for bringing thousands of jobs, economical activity, and young taxation streams to the southern ending of the borough.
The to a greater extent people find out almost jobs, opportunities, and benefits that The Coney will play to Brooklyn and Coney Island, the to a greater extent they the likes of it,” said Robert Cornegy, a former metropolis council member for the 36th territorial dominion who shoemaker's last yr joined The Coney externalize inwards an consultative role. “We testament hold on speech production to everyone and engaging our communities from the earth upwards because Coney Island is a vibrant neighbourhood and The Coney testament live the economical driver that helps us revitalize it.”
The Coney is being pitched past New House of York tangible estate heavyweight Thor Equities inward partnership with Saratoga Casino Holdings, the Chickasaw Nation, and Legends Hospitality. It’s unity of an expected 10 or so bids seeking a downstate gambling casino license. New York’s Gaming Facility Location Board is expected to issuance the trey in demand(p) gaming concessions past the terminate of the year.
Boards Have Opposed Casino Pitches
There are 59 community of interests boards inward New York, with from each one get on composed of unsalaried members prescribed past borough presidents inwards consultation with borough council members. To be appointed, a individual must live or act inwards the community.
Community boards gauge public keep for economic, set down use, and zoning matters. Their positions carry no more official weight, though city council members make on a regular basis sided with CBs.
Community Board 11 issuing its reinforcement for The Coney is the firstly board patronage of a proposed casino. But Community Board 11 doesn’t encompass the area where the structured resort would be built on the Coney Island Boardwalk at Surf and Stillwell avenues on roughly quintet acres of set down Thorn owns.
CB11 instead represents Bensonhurst and Bath Beach forthwith N of Coney Island.
Coney Island Board Has Different Stance
Community Board 13 is the get on that covers Coney Island where the iconic Wonder Wheel Ferris roll and Cyclone tumbler pigeon coaster stand.
Last May, Community Board 13 voiced its opposition to the casino, claiming the development would add further traffic congestion, increase crime, and lead-in to higher rents.
We don’t require it,” said CB13 Chair Lucy Mujica Diaz. The board’s opposition was made functionary through a 23-8 resolution.
Diaz said the good-paying jobs The Coney would get might direct to Coney Island residents losing their living accommodations subsidies.
Fortunately for The Coney developers, CB13 cannot keep the holiday resort from coming to fruition. Before the Gaming Facility Location Board tin can review article the project, which would include a casino, hotel, a one-acre public park, on-site parking, and retail and eating house space catering to local Brooklyn and Coney Island businesses, a freshly formed community advisory commission (CAC) must first of all endorse the undertaking.
Each casino’s CAC testament consist of sise members, with those seats decreed by the governor, mayor of NYC, applicable New House of York State senator and assemblyperson, applicable borough president, and applicable urban center councilor.
During an interview with Casino.org last July, Apostle of the Gentiles Pippin, chief operating officer of Global Gaming Solutions, the gaming subsidiary of the Chickasaw Nation, said the syndicate was strongly interested inward community of interests input.
We looking at this as parting of the process,” Pippin said. “The biotic community feedback is super of import to us. We apprize the comments and utilize the feedback to puddle our practical application stronger.”
Officials with The Coney told Casino.org this week that the propose has gained the signatures of to a greater extent than 10K people from Coney Island and South Brooklyn who livelihood the project.