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Bally’s is going to the Big Apple.
The Providence-based casino and gaming company was approved this week for one of three coveted gaming licenses in New York City, a key victory that allows the company to move forward with a $4 billion hotel and casino project in the Bronx.
The New York Gaming Facility Location Board also approved the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and Resorts World for licenses.
But the proposal from Bally’s has received extra scrutiny for two reasons: its ties to President Donald Trump and a controversial zoning change that outgoing Mayor Eric Adams pushed through.
The Trump Organization stands to make $115 million from Bally’s because of a land deal the two companies signed. Trump sold its interest in the Bronx property, and Bally’s agreed to pay an extra $115 million if the casino license was approved.
The Bally’s project nearly stalled in July when the New York City Council voted down a zoning change that the company was seeking, but Adams issued a veto to keep the casino on track.
Assuming Bally’s moves forward with the project, the company will have a major footprint in both New York City and Chicago, two of the three largest cities in the country. Bally’s operates 20 casinos throughout the world, including Lincoln and Tiverton.
🤔 So you think you're a Rhode Islander...
Can you name the father and son who succeeded each other as president of what is now Bryant University?
(Answer at the bottom.)
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⚓ On this week's edition of the Rhode Island Report podcast, Ed Fitzpatrick talks to Alen Yen, a RISD grad and vice president at RDW Group who just authored "50 Ways to F--- Up a Marathon." Listen here.
⚓ My latest column:Aaron Guckian kicked off his campaign for governor by calling Rhode Island a "state of toos." But being a Republican in a blue state might be too much to overcome. Read more.
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⚓ At 10:30 a.m., Governor Dan McKee and state Treasurer James Diossa are holding a rollout event at the State House for the R.I. Anchor Home pilot program that offer low-interest mortgages for qualifying first-time Rhode Island homebuyers.
⚓ The special legislative commission to study the entire area of land use, preservation, development, housing, environment, and regulation meets at 1:30 p.m. Here's the agenda.
🏆 Pop quiz answer
Henry L. Jacobs led the Bryant and Stratton Rhode Island Commercial School from 1916 until 1961 (it became Bryant College in 1935), and his son, Gardner Jacobs, took the helm from 1961 until 1968.
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