Bally’s, one of five remaining applicants for up to three downstate New York casino licenses, has submitted responses to amendments offered by its Community Advisory Committee (CAC).
The proposed $4 billion venue for Ferry Point has seen the competition of peer proposals largely cleared as all three Manhattan-based pitches — Freedom Plaza, Caesars Palace Times Square, and The Avenir — failed to move forward. A fourth, The Coney, is all but rejected as four members of its CAC have publicly signaled their intentions to vote down the proposal.
Bally’s weathered more of its controversy from the project in the run-up to the two mandated CAC public hearings as New York City Mayor Eric Adams twice threw lifelines to the proposal to get it to this point. That included his veto of a downvote for parkland alienation led by New York City Councilwoman Kristy Marmorato.
