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Community Boards Balk at NYC Effort to Fast-Track Casino Projects

CB6 in Midtown East is the latest to reject bypass of land-use review.

City officials who proposed to bypass NYC’s local land-use review process for the winners of the ongoing casino bidding war may have thought they were increasing the odds that a casino will land in one of the five boroughs, but they’re facing some unexpectedly stiff opposition: local community boards.

Developers have joined forces with some of the world’s leading gaming companies to ante up $1B bids for the most lucrative economic development project on the horizon: one of the three casino licenses that will be awarded by the state in the NYC metro area.

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