The last remaining proposal to build a casino in Manhattan was voted down Monday by the Community Advisory Committee (CAC) overseeing the $11.2-billion Freedom Plaza bid, according to published reports. Further, four of the six CAC members overseeing a proposal to build a casino in Coney Island signaled that they would give a thumbs-down to the project at a yet-to-be-scheduled final vote.
In a statement issued Monday, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine and others commended the Freedom Plaza CAC for conducting “an inclusive, transparent, and collaborative process” and said they looked forward to working with the Soloviev Group to activate the Freedom Plaza site, near United Nations headquarters, for permanent affordable housing. The Soloviev-led Freedom Plaza development team had offered late last week to make all the housing at the project affordable.
If the Coney project is voted down, that would leave two New York City contenders–one each in the Bronx and Queens–for the three downstate casino licenses that New York State plans to award.
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