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The Broadway League doubled down on its opposition to a proposal for a on line casino at a Instances Sq. workplace constructing, threatening a chronic warfare 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} Instances 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} Instances Sq. on line casino would deliver “financial and social disruption,” drain clients from neighborhood eating places and improve congestion with out bringing financial advantages to the world.
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 Instances Sq. guests’ “restricted budgets can be cannibalized by on line casino playing” at the same time as Broadway struggles again from the pandemic.
SL Inexperienced and Caesars stated earlier that on line casino income would pay for enhanced Instances 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 will’t spell them out till the state points a proper proposal this month for firms desirous to launch a full-scale on line casino within the metropolis, one in all three that Gov. Kathy Hochul has approved for all the state.
A state siting committee is to decide on one location within the Huge Apple in 2023. Associated Corporations and Wynn Resorts additionally plan to pitch a on line casino at Hudson Yards and a number of other different firms are within the hunt as properly.
Representatives of SL Inexperienced had not seen the letter however are anticipated to reply right this moment.