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Originally Posted by CIA
Xanadu II
I hate everything about the Meadowlands and avoid in like the plague. I also choose not to own a car and prefer to use NYC subways, PATH and the HBLR to get around. Meadowlands again is off limits for me. As a Jersey City resident, I would strongly support the casino being placed in Jersey City,
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As a Jersey City resident, of course it would be no problem for
you. But I can tell you that the vast majority of Jersey residents are auto-oriented. Access to Jersey City is limited. The meadowlands is perfect for such an expansive development.
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Originally Posted by CCs77
I don't know why people think that building a casino there is such a bad idea (from the bussines standpoint) I think that location is just right. It is a relatively isolated place, yes, but you can't look at it as it were a housing or retail complex.
a casino is a completely different thing, it is a place that attracts people on its own. For getting there, it obviously wont rely on the existing commuter ferry, they can put their own ferry service, that could work 24 hours a day (or the time the casino is open) and it can even have aditional amenities than a conventional commuter ferry. And for a tourist, that will go there more likely just once, the ferry ride would be more like an aditional attraction. Besides it is very close to Newark Airport.
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And here we are talking about ferry service. Residents from Jersey won't be taking a
ferry to Jersey City that's for sure. But again, if you're thinking about drawing residents and tourists from New York to support this, then forget about it. As I've said, any casino in northern New Jersey needs to stand on its own, and not rely on residents of NY or Pennsylvania for that matter, unless they want to shut quicker than the Revel did.
And at least one person can see the folly in doing otherwise...
http://www.nj.com/bergen/index.ssf/2...nos_close.html
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Steven Perskie, a former state legislator who wrote New Jersey's casino gambling law in the 1970s, said in a recent interview with NJ.com that opening a casino in the Meadowlands would only light a fire under New York to get their operations running, creating even more competition for Atlantic City.
"The notion that you could build a major facility in Jersey City and then have New York say, 'OK, we’re going to allow everybody to go across the river and make money in New Jersey' is insane," he said.
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Insane, and quite foolish. Build the casinos in north Jersey where they will best benefit from state residents, not rely on the NY crowd.