Lawmakers: $100M electronic gaming parlor coming to Woodbury
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WOODBURY – State lawmakers and the governor have reached a deal to allow Empire Resorts to open a $100 million electronic gaming parlor in the former Nepera chemical plant complex in the Town of Woodbury and the Village of Harriman, state Sen. James Skoufis announced Thursday.
Empire, parent to Resorts World Catskills casino in the Town of Thompson, would likely employ 400 union workers to mind the so-called video lottery terminals in Woodbury, Skoufis said.
At press time Thursday night, the deal to allow a new VLT facility was expected to pass as part of an omnibus bill.
The facility will likely have 1,100 VLTs, Skoufis said, the same number permitted under the state license Empire used to operate VLTs at Monticello Raceway from June 2004 until April.
Empire, which declined to comment, will be permitted to keep 59 percent of slots revenue from the electronic gaming parlor, with 8.75 percent going to Monticello Raceway’s purses, 1.25 percent set aside for a horse breeders’ fund, and the remainder going to the state.
I can't see how moving this operation 50 miles south is going to help. The casinos are losing and losing big.
