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Originally Posted by ChiND
NY Guy:
If Related/Wynn get the license, when do you think that the casino and residential tower might start rising? Will any of it be built on terra firma, or must the platform be built first?
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Only the casino would be built on the platform.
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Originally Posted by DCReid
Will this rejection have any bearing on the decision? The general consensus seems that it was expected, but does this pose a risk even if the casino is awarded to HY? For example, will the residents and land use committee file lawsuits to stop it? And if HY does not get the casino, will Related proceed with the original plan even after saying that the residential component was not as successful in Phase 1 and should be scaled down for phase 2?
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It’s always advisory with the CB. Technically, they voted against the change in site plan, not the casino. That would came in the next round. But it’s always dangerous, and also why the state usually doesn’t subject its developments to city approval. All of the new casinos in this process should have been approved just as the upstate casinoscwere. But Hochul, being from upstate, still doesn’t have a solid understanding of how NYC politics work.