{"id":5058,"date":"2023-09-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/en\/america\/sands-casino-a-very-bad-bet-hofstras-president\/"},"modified":"2023-09-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T00:00:00","slug":"sands-casino-a-very-bad-bet-hofstras-president","status":"publish","type":"america","link":"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/en\/america\/sands-casino-a-very-bad-bet-hofstras-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Sands casino a very bad bet, Hofstra&#8217;s president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">At one end of Las Vegas Sands&#39;&nbsp;proposed $4 billion casino resort&nbsp;is Nassau Community College, the county&#39;s 2-year institution that has signed on as its primary employee training center. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">At the other end is Hofstra University, a private college that&nbsp;sued the county over alleged meetings violations weeks before Sands was granted control of the Nassau Coliseum site. Sands&#39; plans are&nbsp;testing the colleges&nbsp;within walking distance, highlighting&nbsp;a growing debate over whether pursuing a career on Long Island requires workforce training or a liberal arts degree, whether a casino should be near&nbsp;campuses&nbsp;or if&nbsp;the economic opportunities associated with them&nbsp;have too much potential to pass up. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/assets\/international\/sands-casino-a-very-bad-bet-hofstras-president2.jpg\" style=\"width:100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">The Nevada-based company&#39;s proposal is still years away from becoming&nbsp;reality because Sands&nbsp;needs approval for&nbsp;zoning changes and its review of the environmental&nbsp;impact. Community and state site selection panels&nbsp;need to sign off, and the plan requires&nbsp;one of three downstate gaming licenses expected to be awarded by the state in 2024 or 2025.&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/assets\/international\/sands-casino-a-very-bad-bet-hofstras-president3.jpg\" style=\"width:100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">Las Vegas Sands&#39; proposed $4 billion casino resort at the Nassau Coliseum site is within walking distance of both Hofstra University and Nassau Community College.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/assets\/international\/sands-casino-a-very-bad-bet-hofstras-president4.jpg\" style=\"width:100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">Sands executives estimate 8,500 full- and part-time jobs in more than 150 categories in their &quot;integrated resort&quot;&nbsp;of a Vegas-style casino, luxury hotel, high-end retail, celebrity-chef restaurants, a live performance venue, convention and event space, and day spa.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:x-large\">New York State, which has the final decision on who wins&nbsp;gaming licenses,&nbsp;has placed no restrictions on a casino&#39;s proximity to schools.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\"><strong>Hofstra opposition <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/assets\/international\/sands-casino-a-very-bad-bet-hofstras-president5.jpg\" style=\"width:100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;<span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">Nassau County should not situate a gambling center in a location brimming with young people who are especially predisposed to such risky behavior,&quot; <\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">Hofstra&#39;s president <\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">has<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\"> said a casino should not be so close to students and has encouraged other types of development at the site.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">On the other side of the coin the students say : I don&rsquo;t really see the casino as an issue because I believe the age to go in is 21, right?&nbsp;If you&rsquo;re 21, legally you&rsquo;re an adult. You can say, &lsquo;This is right, that&rsquo;s wrong,&rdquo; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:x-large\">Opposition is building elsewhere against casinos, however. Brooklyn&rsquo;s Community Board 13 recently approved a non-binding resolution against locating a casino along the Coney Island Island boardwalk. Many Manhattanites also don&rsquo;t want a casino in or around their neighborhoods.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York State, which has the final decision on who wins gaming licenses, has placed no restrictions on a casino&#8217;s proximity to schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5059,"menu_order":293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2269,1564,2268],"class_list":["post-5058","america","type-america","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","tag-hofstra-university","tag-new-york","tag-sands-casino-project","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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