Oh I know a lot of NYers/NJ people that would love to see a Casino next to Citi Field. It was a long shot, but hey they had to try right?!
Report after the jump…
According to Adam Rubin at ESPN:
The owners of the New York Mets reportedly wanted to take a gamble on owning a casino next to Citi Field, the home of their major league club.
Sterling Equities, the real estate company operated by Mets owner Fred Wilpon and family, pitched a casino adjacent to the major league stadium in September 2011 and offered the City of New York $100 million to acquire 62 acres for the site, the New York Post reported Tuesday.
Sterling Equities even lined up the Shinnecock Indian nation to operate the casino, but a live-dealer casino is not legal in New York except on tribal lands, making it infeasible at that point, according to the report.
Sterling Equities was instead given 23 of the 62 requested acres in June to construct a $3 billion entertainment complex — minus the casino.
“An initial concept submitted two years ago floated the possibility of Indian gaming and was dismissed by the city,” read a statement from the Queens Development Group — the joint venture between Sterling Equities and related companies.
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