{"id":11703,"date":"2013-10-03T10:56:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T18:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=11703"},"modified":"2020-09-14T05:35:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T13:35:19","slug":"n-y-casino-expansion-in-danger-macao-full-to-bursting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/n-y-casino-expansion-in-danger-macao-full-to-bursting\/","title":{"rendered":"N.Y. casino expansion in danger; Macao: Full to bursting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NY<\/a>A poll on Proposition One<\/strong>, conducted by Parkside Group<\/strong>, shows casino expansion in New York State<\/strong> enjoying a bare majority of 51<\/a>%. If that doesn’t galvanize Gov. Andrew Cuomo<\/strong> (D) and other supporters into action, it ought to — especially after Cuomo suffered one high-profile defection this week<\/a>. Contrary to expectations, the poll shows Prop One enjoying a wide margin of support (52% vs. 31%) in New York City<\/strong>, where opposition was expected to be the strongest. And, perversely, gambling expansion<\/a> has but a one-point margin of support upstate, where the casinos are actually supposed to go. Casino backers, once they get over the shock of those topsy-turvy numbers, will need to get on the stick.<\/p>\n

It seems as<\/strong> though the\u00a0North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians<\/strong> and Station Casinos<\/strong> will never be out of the woods with their Madera<\/strong> casino project. A group of adversaries in California say they’ve got the signatures to put the issue on the 2014 ballot. This would upend a deal<\/a> brokered by Gov. Jerry Brown<\/strong> (D) to put the casino off-\"station1\"<\/a>reservation, negate a decade of patient work by Station and dash the hopes of any other tribe seeking a casino off the rez. The motives of the signature gatherers are not entirely pure: They’re funded by Brigade Capital Management<\/strong>, a firm on Wall Street<\/strong> that’s got money in two existing tribal casinos. Brigade ought not show its face around Madera County<\/strong>, which was anticipating $500 million in economic impact and now could see those hopes dashed.<\/p>\n

Not even a typhoon<\/strong> could stop gamblers in Macao<\/strong>, where revenues pogo-sprang 21% last month in the teeth of the gale. Analysts expected \"Sands<\/a>more, but they’re not meteorologists, are they? Storms come and go but Macao’s infrastructural problems are here to stay. “[I]ncreasing gridlock on Macau’s streets remains a sore point among residents<\/em>,” reports Reuters<\/strong>. “At the Taipa<\/strong> ferry terminal on a Tuesday morning, swarms of tourists were packed together at the arrivals exit. Casino tour buses jammed together in a long queue to take eager gamblers to the resorts and the road<\/em> [sic] completely blocked by incoming tour buses<\/em>.” Finding gamblers isn’t a problem for Macao but getting them into the enclave obviously is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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