royal circle club An Installation That May Give Way to a Casino
Good morning. Today we’ll look at a plan for the latest interactive installation near the United Nations on a site that could become a casino. We’ll also get details on the suspect in the fatal shooting of a health insurance executive on a Midtown street.royal circle club
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Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa are a couple of weeks away. But Michael Hershman is thinking about next spring — and a word he said was “hard to pronounce and harder to spell.”
The word is semiquincentennial, the term for a 250th anniversary. Hershman — the chief executive of the Soloviev Group, the development firm that hopes to build a casino on a six-plus-acre site near the United Nations — is planning a display on the site to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
That is not until 2026. But Hershman decided to get a head start with giant video screens and interviews from across the country. The installation, “Path of Liberty: That Which United Us,” is being underwritten by the charitable arm of the company and will open in the spring, months before state regulators decide which applicants to license for up to three new casinos in the New York City area.
At least 10 firms are expected to submit bids, with proposals in the works for sites in Hudson Yards, next to Citi Field, atop the Saks Fifth Avenue store across from Rockefeller Center and in Times Square. New opposition to that site surfaced last week when the United Federation of Teachers joined a coalition opposing the casino planned by Caesars Entertainment, the real estate firm SL Green and Roc Nation, the entertainment agency started by the rap artist Jay-Z.
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