'I have a good location because I'm centrally located between Elmira, Binghamton, Pennsylvania, Ithaca, Cortland,'' Gural said.Īnother raceway with video slots, the Saratoga Casino and Raceway, also will bid for a license, a spokeswoman said. In the Southern Tier, Tioga Downs Casino owner Jeff Gural said he would bid for a license to expand beyond the video lottery machines at his harness track if the referendum passes in November. 'I think there's still an appetite there,'' he said. Although the Northeast is becoming a saturated gambling market, New York could still be attractive to developers because of its size, said Clyde Barrow, a gambling expert at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. The Catskills are less than two hours from Manhattan and proponents hope resorts there can pull back some the New York gambling dollars that now flow to Atlantic City, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. 'There are going to be a lot of people who go back to work in the region as a result of this.''
'It really sets the stage for something really special,'' Nevele investor Michael Treanor said of the deal.
