\n“It is entirely premature to give credence to any analysis of how well the casinos are operating,” New York Gaming Commission spokesman Lee Park told The Lockport Union-Sun & Journal<\/i>, a newspaper that covers the Finger Lakes.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) also tried to calm fears.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n“The variance with the projections doesn’t bother me that much,” he told reporters last week. “They’ve all been wildly successful in creating jobs and building beautiful complexes.”<\/span><\/p>\nCritics say there’s simply too many casinos in the northeast, and it’s only going to get worse. MGM Springfield and Wynn Boston Harbor are set to open over the next two years in neighboring Massachusetts, and a new satellite tribal casino is in the works in Connecticut. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three non-tribal New York casinos located upstate are struggling to meet gaming revenue projections just several months into operation. Tioga Downs in Nichols, Rivers Casino near Albany, and del Lago in the Finger Lakes are all reporting disappointing earnings. In 2013, New York voters approved a constitutional ballot referendum that allowed the state legislature to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":57436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,10,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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