The battle to win a New York City casino license has heated up, with a real estate developer and a gambling powerhouse proposing a Caesars Palace casino in Times Square. The developer, SL Green Realty Corporation, and the gambling giant Caesars Entertainment are trying to line up restaurants, retailers and construction workers in a pro-casino coalition.

This comes a month after another real estate colossus, Related Companies, joined with the Las Vegas gambling giant Wynn Resorts in a bid for a casino in Related’s Hudson Yards complex.

I asked Dana Rubinstein, who covers New York City politics, about the proposal from SL Green and Caesars.