NEW YORK GAMING FACILITY LOCATION BOARD ANNOUNCES DETAILS FOR APRIL 30^th MANDATORY APPLICANT CONFERENCE

The New York Gaming Facility Location Board today released details regarding the mandatory April 30, 2014 Applicant Conference for entities seeking to submit applications to develop and operate commercial gaming facilities in New York State. The Applicant Conference will be held:

April 30, 2014
10:00 a.m.

Meeting Rooms 2 and 3

Empire State Plaza, Albany

Applicant sign-in begins at 9 a.m.

OPEN PRESS

Attendance at this conference is mandatory for any individual, entity, consortium or other party interested in submitting an Application.

Payment of the required Application fee, on or before April 23, 2014, is a condition of any interested party’s Proposal submission. It is also required for admission to and participation in the conference.  The purpose of the Application fee is to defray the costs of Applicant’s investigation. Unexpended funds will be returned to the Applicant. Full reimbursement will be made to any party declining to file an Application. Information on wiring or submitting the payment is available upon request from the New York State Gaming Commission Finance Office. Please contact Frank Roddy at (518) 388-3354 or Frank.Roddy@gaming.ny.gov for such instructions.

Questions submitted in advance will be answered at the conference. They must be emailed to New York State Gaming Commission designated contacts Gail Thorpe (Gail.Thorpe@gaming.ny.gov) or Stacey Relation (Stacey.Relation@gaming.ny.gov) no later than 4:00 p.m. on April 22, 2014. Questions will not be accepted via phone or video conference on the day of the conference. 

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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012

Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.