A decade after New Jersey voters categorically rejected a proposal to allow casinos to expand beyond Atlantic City, momentum is building among real estate developers and elected officials to give it another try.
The owners of the Meadowlands and Monmouth Park racetracks have been pitching state officials to get behind a campaign to legalize casinos in northern New Jersey.
The impetus is the potential loss of gambling and tax revenue that might drift from New Jersey to New York, where three new casinos are being built across the river in New York City.
Casino lobbyists in New York City have already begun strategizing about ways to counter the burgeoning North Jersey effort.
