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If you can get permission to move the landmarked theaters in the middle of the block down to this site at the end of the block, the Marriott Marquis could have nearly an entire block of the Bow Tie to itself. A perfect spot for building a supertall casino with massive floorplates. It could be ready a couple years after 1515 opens.
-Use the first 10 floors for gaming space, business convention space, retail/dining, and hotel amenities.
-Put 10,000 luxury hotel rooms on top.
You’d have the most valuable building in the world.
What drugs are you taking?
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If Times Square becomes the city’s new casino district one day, they are going to have a lot of challenges because of all the tiny floor plates. Casinos want massive floor plates that people can wander around on. They’ll have to look to merge any open lots they can find. This lot with the massive Marquis lot at the end of the block is probably the best opportunity for it in all of Times Square.
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Doesn’t matter because this lot is already being built on. Open lots don’t just randomly appear and finding/purchasing assemblages is not an easy task to do either. Also, there are plenty of examples of casinos that are multi-leveled instead of being vast open plans and neither are the floor plates in the podium of 1515 Broadway small in any manner.
Times Square isn’t just magically going to become a casino district just because one building has a casino in it, it will always be the Theater district and that isn’t changing any time soon or in the future as that is what it has almost always been known for.
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Times Square was originally known for both theater AND gambling. We killed the gambling long ago.
If 1515 wins a license and starts bring in tons of money, I suspect more licenses will follow. Possibly even competing with Vegas one day. If I was the developer/architect, making this property ideal for gaming would be my number one priority.
Yes, illegal gambling.
One place getting a license doesnt mean more will follow because it isnt the city that issues the licenses, it’s the state. And even if that were the case, of the 3 licenses being dealt out, only one is being viewed as going towards NYC, and it could still go to one of the existing casinos out of the cities center.
It isn’t the architects decision as to what function/program a building has, they follow direction and wants of the developers. Dream on about the Marriott Marquis lot becoming an entire resort, but its never going to be.
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There’s going to be a lot of pressure to find a use for those half vacant office buildings in Midtown. Also, a mega-resort can be huge boon for a city, even one like NY. For example, the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville is at least 50% of the reason people travel to Nashville. NYC doesn’t have any comparable mega-resorts for now.
People dont come to NY to gamble, so that comparison doesn’t even make sense. Vacant office space will be converted to residential as is already being done in Lower Manhattan, which is what the city needs, not casinos and resorts, what on earth.
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Bro what… 
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In agreement to what @TKDV said, you do realize NYC is experiencing a housing crisis, right?
Also, what does this have to do with 740 8th Avenue?
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Exactly the point 
Why was the topic of a casino brought into the thread when this development has nothing to do with a casino.
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Exactly
Plus this building has a potential to include a drop ride so a casino there is irrelevant.
Well this building was never going to be housing. It’s already planned to be the 10th largest hotel in NYC and going to have a very substantial resort portion with restaurants and retail and a pool. I think this building will make a ton of money. I’m just suggesting it would make even more if it combined with NYC’s largest hotel which happens to be on the same block.
A hotel having restaurants, retail on the ground floor and a pool does not all of a sudden make it a resort. If that were the case then almost every single hotel in NYC would be considered a resort. It’s also going to be the 11th largest, not the 10th.
Housing was brought up as the actual necessary rebuttal to your outlandish claim that NYC “needs” a mega resort.
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It’ll be the 10th largest after the Hyatt Grand Central comes down.
Umm, the largest hotel is the New York Hilton Midtown, and it’s on 6th Avenue, hence not on the same block.
NYC IS a mega resort.
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Generally speaking, people go to resorts to get away from the city. If they want to stay in town they go to spas.