JANUARY 2015
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Southern Tier Region passed over by New York State for a Casino! Traditions, Tioga Downs, and Senator Libous make last minute plea to Cuomo
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December 17, 2014 -- The Gaming Facility Location Board (GFLB) recommends only 3 of the 4 possible casino licenses for New York Sate, with the one license in the “Eastern Finger Lakes/Southern Tier” Region going to Lago Resort & Casino in Tyre, Senaca County instead of Tioga Downs in Tioga County or Traditions in Broome County.
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December 19, 2014 - NYS Senator Tom Libous asks for the fourth license to be granted in the true Southern Tier region. December 22, 2014 - The Oneida Indian Nation, owner of Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, NY, announces plans to build a $20 million, 67,000 square foot Yellow Brick Road casino in the Village of Chittenango (about 15 miles east of Syracuse).
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December 23, 2014 - At a joint news conference (pictured above) with Jeff Gural of Tioga Downs, Peter Walsh of Traditions announces that the Traditions team will give their full support to Tioga Downs in its fight for the 4th license. “Mr. Gural reached out to our team to discuss a unified front to fight for the Southern Tier,” Walsh said. “...the entire Southern Tier can now stand together and fight for that 4th license. There is no longer a division over Tioga or Traditions. We have put our pride and our differences aside as over 1000 jobs are at stake and this is far too important for our community. This unified front is our best chance at bringing the entire Southern Tier together to secure this 4th license…. This partnership will ensure that both Broome and Tioga will maximize the potential benefit from a casino in the region… This partnership ... has the ability to benefit much more than either one of our projects could have alone."
December 25, 2014 - On their Facebook page, Traditions wishes "Merry Christmas to everyone from the Traditions - Tioga Downs team." December 26, 2014 - Governor Andrew Cuomo writes a letter to the NYS Gaming Commission and the Gaming Facility Location Board (GFLB) asking them to "consider issuing a new Request for Application to seek a qualified applicant to submit a new bid that would allow the fourth and remaining gaming license to be awarded to a location in New York's Southern Tier" Cuomo pointed out that the applicant chosen on December 17 proposed a casino in an area “well north of the actual Southern Tier" Cuomo concluded: "I am requesting the GFLB consider approving a new bidding process for Region Five with the hope that a qualified Applicant will come forward to site a casino with the fourth available license in the true Southern Tier. Indeed, as this would be the last license issued in New York State, it may excite national competition by interested parties that submit even better Applications than the first round." Tioga County's
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