A proposal to construct a on line casino at 1515 Broadway (above) is attracting blowback from Broadway theaters.
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The Broadway League doubled down on its opposition to a proposal for a on line casino at a Occasions Sq. workplace constructing, threatening a chronic conflict between the politically potent theater group and the town’s largest industrial landlord.
The League, which represents theater house owners and producers in main US cities, known as the preliminary proposal by SL Inexperienced and Caesars Leisure to place a on line casino inside its 1515 Broadway workplace tower “an unprecedented and harmful experiment” in a letter to its members Tuesday morning.
It was the League’s strongest anti-casino rhetoric but. It beforehand stated solely that a Occasions Sq. on line casino would “overwhelm the already densely congested space” and threaten the theater trade’s vitality.
The League’s newest assault warned that a Occasions Sq. on line casino would deliver “financial and social disruption,” drain prospects from neighborhood eating places and improve congestion with out bringing financial advantages to the realm.
The letter penned by League president Charlotte St. Martin stated casinos “do all they'll to maintain guests within the on line casino, playing,” with out spreading the wealth to close by companies.
It termed as “trigger for alarm” that Occasions Sq. guests’ “restricted budgets can be cannibalized by on line casino playing” whilst Broadway struggles again from the pandemic.
SL Inexperienced and Caesars stated earlier that on line casino income would pay for enhanced Occasions Sq. safety and that an upscale on line casino would assist to stop the bright-lights district from sliding again into its bad-old-days period of crime and blight.
Nevertheless, no particulars of the plan have been revealed. They'll’t spell them out till the state points a proper proposal this month for firms eager to launch a full-scale on line casino within the metropolis, one in every of three that Gov. Kathy Hochul has approved for your entire state.
A state siting committee is to decide on one location within the Massive Apple in 2023. Associated Firms and Wynn Resorts additionally plan to pitch a on line casino at Hudson Yards and several other different firms are within the hunt as effectively.
An SL Inexperienced spokesperson stated, “Whereas we respect the League, they're misinformed in regards to the particulars of our proposal and don’t characterize your entire Occasions Sq. neighborhood or Broadway group.”
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