It’s beginning to look a lot like the Christmas tourist season in part because of an installation that will put 17,000 illuminated, flowerlike stems on a vacant lot in Midtown facing the East River. The opening is scheduled for Dec. 15.
That date is three months later than originally planned for the display, which is by the British artist Bruce Munro. The installation will be temporary: The Soloviev Group, the development company that owns the site and is covering costs of the art display with its charitable arm, wants to put a casino there.
At least 10 firms have similar casino dreams for sites in Times Square, Hudson Yards, next to Citi Field and even atop the Saks Fifth Avenue department store near Rockefeller Center.
