Mets owner Steve Cohen’s plan to bring a casino to Western Queens was overwhelmingly approved by all five community boards charged with reviewing the proposal under the city’s land use review process.
It was a minor but telling step for the controversial $8 billion proposal, which would bring a casino and entertainment complex dubbed Metropolitan Park to Citi Field’s parking lot, a 50-acre plot of land owned by the city and technically designated as parkland.
In addition to the Queens community boards, which served as the first stop for Metropolitan Park’s journey through the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, Cohen will need a host of other approvals in order to bring a casino to the corner of Queens already slated for a major redevelopment over the next decade.
