He discounted concerns that gambling would attract crime, saying the casino would be protected by in-house security, surveillance cameras that blanket the room and the close relationship Resorts World typically maintains with local police departments. 'I think these new restaurateurs and retailers will be all over this,' he said. Since the casino will have no restaurants, gamblers will likely stream into the mall for meals, he said. Robert DeSalvio, president of parent company Genting Americas East, predicted the gambling hall would super-charge a struggling mall that he said had 17 vacant store spaces when he last toured it.

Resorts World plans to sign a 65-year lease with the mall owners. Those amounts would rise by 5% every 10 years. They consist of $1 million a year for any municipal purposes, $500,000 a year for public safety and $1.5 million for community projects. Resorts World made those intentions public on Monday by making its first formal pitch to Newburgh's Town Board, which would have to amend its zoning to allow gambling.Īmong the new details revealed during that presentation and in an accompanying press release were the $3 million in payments the company has offered the town. The company has been authorized by the state since 2019 to open an Orange County facility to house the electronic slot machines that previously were licensed at Monticello Raceway. Resorts World - which operates casinos in Sullivan County and Queens - had chosen that mall location near the intersection of the Thruway and Interstate 84 after dropping its initial plans to build a video gaming parlor in Woodbury.

Roughly 200 construction workers would labor on the $32 million project to turn a 68,877-square-foot section of the indoor mall into Resorts World Hudson Valley, the Times Herald-Record reports. Representatives of the casino operators introduced their plans to the Newburgh Town Board Monday night, saying the new venue with 1,300 video gaming machines would employ 200 to 225 full-time workers. Roughly 200 construction workers would labor on the $32 million project to turn a 68,877-square-foot section of the indoor mall into Resorts World Hudson Valley, a gambling hall with 1,300 video gaming machines in the Newburgh Mall.Īs part of the company's proposal to open a gambling hall in the Newburgh Mall, in the Town of Newburgh, New York, Resorts World plans to give the Town $3 million a year in host-community payments.

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