The cards are on the table, and now it’s up to a five-member board to decide which of the four downstate casino proposals will receive a gaming license.
The state’s Gaming Facility Location Board met for the first time on Wednesday to consider the final casino applications for highly lucrative state licenses. It is this board, with expertise in banking, economic development and housing, that will submit final recommendations on who gets a license.
That decision is then ratified by the state Gaming Commission.
The deliberations will occur behind closed doors, and the board is not expected to take any more public testimony after months of public hearings on each of the applications.
