As this location is not in the immediate vicinity of tourist facilities. It would be enough if you opened a casino on Times Square, as there are a lot of tourists in this area. Hudson Yards is half finished, and you could use the other half for residential and offices. Build three residential towers (one single and the others as twins) and finally 40 Hudson Yards. For myself, the area is well suited for residential, as well as Site K. And furthermore, if I already have an expensive flat in 15 Hudson Yards, I don’t want to live near a casino.
This is my personal opinion as a New York tourist.
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The entire point is to make as much money for the city as possible. It’s one of the selection criteria. Being as close to tourist facilities as possible is one of the best ways to do that.
That’s happening casino or not.
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„ CASINO BID
Today, Silverstein’s ambitions for development in Hell’s Kitchen are still bubbling: he plans to build a casino. His team acquired most of a block from W40th to 41st Street east of 11th Avenue many years ago that had once been a Mercedes car dealership. Now he’s envisioning a casino on the site. “Our location is ideal for a casino,” he said confidently. “There’s nothing in the immediate vicinity that would cause problems, unlike Times Square or Hudson Yards.”
In Hell’s Kitchen, there are three bids vying for a casino license. Roc Nation is proposing a casino in Times Square with SL Green and Caesars Palace; at Hudson Yards there is a bid from Related Companies in partnership with Wynn Resorts; and Silverstein Properties is proposing a hotel and casino development in partnership with Greenwood Gaming.
From Silverstein’s point of view, the Hudson Yards casino proposal faces significant regulatory hurdles — along with opposition from The High Line, while Times Square is already congested, which could make adding a casino problematic. “Times Square is already packed, and they’re planning to put a casino at the base of an existing office building. I just can’t see that working,” he remarked.„
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This location would make fine sense to me… if there was a realistic plan to build the 10th Ave infill station on the 7.
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Exactly, the location is not ideal because of that lack of transportation to it. One still has to walk some distance to get to either the HY-34th St station or all the way to Times Square-42nd St.
Also that it will be a disaster zone once all the PABT stuff is going on.
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The proposed entrance to The Avenir hotel and casino on W41st Street between 10/11th Avenue. Renderings: Silverstein Properties
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Anyone with 2 cents left in their brains knows by now that the entire country is nothing more than a casino.
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I think you meant “any sense” instead of “two cents.”
(people usually don’t have coins in their brains unless something went terribly wrong)
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It’s not that bad, is it?
It could get worse.
No, that’s just the inherent wordplay that is the English language. After today’s announcement about the penny, nobody’s got less than a nickel to spare.
lol, oh yes, it can…and it will!
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It’s going to get worse before it gets even worse.
But thankfully we’ll have plenty of casinos to keep the serfs and vassals distracted.
Bread and circuses.
Just like ancient Rome.
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Wow, the redesign is much nicer than the 2023 twins. Hoping this gets built.
I’m going to preface this by saying that I like this proposal the most out of any of them.
That said I find it interesting part of Silverstein’s pitch in the material posted here is that this building would make better use of the existing zoning than a straw man alternative of 1.2M sf.
However this ‘alternative’ is to distract from this proposal not using all of the zoned sf. A 93,000 sf lot zoned for 20 FAR = 1.86M sf not 1.67M gross. The proposal verbiage is getting ahead of the idea they aren’t using the site to its greatest potential. They could sell those extra square feet to a neighboring development in the future I guess?
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