
A rendering of just one portion of the proposed Resorts World Miami Genting casino resort project; the $3 billion project still hasn’t received a high sign from Florida lawmakers.
They state money talks, but in Genting Resorts World’s case, it’s perhaps not been speaking as loudly as the ongoing company might like.
The asian gambling conglomerate has largely met with nothing but resistance despite pouring $236 million into a 14-acre waterfront Miami spread back in 2011 and then sprinkling millions more into pressuring state politicians to ‘adapt’ a construction law to accommodate a new $3 billion resorts World Miami casino project. So they’ve now decided for a new, less direction that is cumbersome the Sunshine State: a slots-only task that would pair them up with Gulfstream Park racetrack in Miami’s Key Biscayne area.
Antagonists Await
Of course, anytime a potential brand new casino operator appears in a state, first thing that happens is some type of anti-gaming coalition forms; and Florida has been no exclusion compared to that guideline. Anti-casino group NoCasino.org is even releasing a movie mid-January called Pushing Luck that claims to show a ‘sobering glimpse’ of ‘broken claims’ from casino operators.
According to Genting’s new partner Gulfstream, the racetrack holds an as-yet-unused video gaming license that gets the possibility of use with in either Miami-Dade or Broward counties, as the track rests just between Continue reading “Genting Gambles in Florida with Uncertain Outcomes”