There still needs to be an environment review, and perhaps most importantly, a gaming license.
'It's taking a property sitting there for more than four decades and giving it life, to make sure it's a generator of taxes,' said Matthew Aracich, the president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Nassau and Suffolk Counties.īut it's far from a done deal. Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman also stood in support of the project as well. Labor and business leaders are among the supporters who have maintained that the project will create 8,500 jobs and generate an estimate $100 million in annual revenue around the Coliseum. Get Tri-state area news and weather forecasts to your inbox.
