Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Genting Malaysia-Resort World New York的功课

大家都已经知道Resort World New York将会在２８Ｏｃｔ开张了。
自己做了一些功课
Look at some of the pictures and news I've Googled:
On Friday afternoon, October 28, at 1 p.m., the face of New York racing will forever change.

The marriage of the New York Racing Association and a casino, after an agonizing 10-year courtship, will finally be consummated.

The doors to the Resorts World Casino New York City at Aqueduct Racetrack will officially open that day and a wave of customers will swarm into the sparkling, new facility. They’ll immediately begin pumping dollars, coins, swipe cards and perhaps even the lint in their pockets into 2,485 video slot machines called Video Lottery Terminals (VLT) and electronic table games in hopes of leaving with a small fortune.

For better or worse, a racetrack and a casino will become a coupled entry, with the fervent hope that the “better” part of the equation will become the norm.
Quite frankly, there’s no way things can get worse, and in many ways a casino can only help NYRA survive these difficult financial times.

What has happened at Yonkers Raceway since the opening of its Empire City Casino (they’re the casino with a talking horse, if you’ve seen the ads) figures to serve as a model for what will evovle with NYRA and Resorts World.

The casino will bring thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people to Aqueduct on a daily basis at all hours of the day. It will make money like Facebook, perhaps averaging a weekly win of about $7 million for the stakeholders to share. It will pour a treasure chest of cash into NYRA’s coffers and make purses as lucrative as you’ll find anywhere in the country.
NYRA will finally be able to put away the squeegies and the tin cups and pencils.
But don’t expect a big bump in the number of people who embrace the activities at the racetrack over the bells, buzzers and chimes of the casino.

Places like Yonkers have shown that a casino brings in money for a racetrack, but not fans for the Sport of Kings, and that’s hardly a stunning proclamation. Let’s face it. The average slot player is someone who just wants to drop money in a machine, then pull a handle or push a button and watch some wheels spin for 10 seconds while dreams of winning $1,000 or $10,000 float in and out of their head. Are these same people actually going to spend 15 minutes pouring over and analyzing past performances and speed figures to perhaps turn $2 into $4.80? I’m guessing no. It’s not logical, and judging by the growing number of tracks with casinos and the industry’s shrinking handle, it’s just not happening.

What generally occurs in these types of situations is that the horse crowd ventures over to the casino more than the casino crowd strays over to the racetrack.

Yet even if a casino cannot build a fan base, it can keep NYRA’s tracks afloat though a healthy and steady infusion of cash. Money may not solve every problem in life, but it certainly can do wonders to a company drowning in red ink like NYRA.

So in the end, while the casino figures to eventually become the dominant partner in the marriage, it’s an absolutely welcomed sight. It promises to be a first-class facility, with plenty of options for snacking, dinning, drinking and watching a performance or game, and it gives people one less reason to take their gambling dollars outside the city or state borders.

Saratoga might not need it, but having a casino at the other end of the plant gives a racing fan a new reason to drive to Ozone Park and visit the Big A. It really can’t hurt – right now, anyway.

So circle the date: Oct. 28. And if you’re thinking about a wedding present for the happy couple, a roll of quarters would be nice.
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from: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?s=89d3e7a0699a08fa9dec231f2fba4512&t=139477&page=8