Sunday, December 20, 2009

Aqueduct Gaming Announces Community-Based, Right-Sized Development Plan

Aqueduct Gaming LLC, a affiliation of New York companies behest for the appropriate to redevelop and accomplish video action gaming at Aqueduct Racetrack, today appear data of its angle aimed at ensuring that Queens' association appearance and apropos are absolutely addressed in the project. The humans of Queens apprehend and deserve a activity that will enhance and account their community, not backbite from it As a aftereffect of our analysis and alternation with association leaders, Aqueduct Gaming's access represents the appropriate admeasurement and appearance of development, with specific association initiatives advised to ensure best account to the community, the blood antagonism industry and the state. Aqueduct Gaming's plan is the a lot of responsible, reliable plan for the community, the blood antagonism industry and the State of New York We are New Yorkers committed to accomplishing what's appropriate for every citizen of New York.

New York, N.Y. -- Aqueduct Gaming LLC, a affiliation of New York companies behest for the appropriate to redevelop and accomplish video action gaming at Aqueduct Racetrack, today appear data of its angle aimed at ensuring that Queens' association appearance and apropos are absolutely addressed in the project.

Aqueduct Gaming's plan includes several appearance and initiatives based on association discussions and analysis completed endure anniversary by the Siena College Research Institute. In a analysis of 703 Queens association commissioned by Aqueduct Gaming, Siena College Research Institute begin that Queens association accept a able admiration for new development at the racetrack that is connected with the absolute appearance of the community, while bound accouterment jobs for bounded residents. (See www.siena.edu/sri/research for the after-effects of the analysis of Queens residents.)

"The humans of Queens apprehend and deserve a activity that will enhance and account their community, not backbite from it," said William Bissett, a baton in the affiliation of New York companies absolute Aqueduct Gaming. Bissett is admiral of Delaware North Companies Gaming & Entertainment.

"As a aftereffect of our analysis and alternation with association leaders, Aqueduct Gaming's access represents the appropriate admeasurement and appearance of development, with specific association initiatives advised to ensure best account to the community, the blood antagonism industry and the state."

Aqueduct Gaming's eyes is to actualize an outstanding gaming and ball destination that achieves the appropriate antithesis of world-class amenities and captures and promotes a adjacency and association feel. Aqueduct Gaming's eyes includes amplitude for fine-dining restaurants, accidental dining and bars, a 2,000 amplitude parking garage, lighting and agriculture to add to the ambient of the association and enactment of absolute aegis and assurance measures to ensure a safe and defended ability for guests, advisers and the surrounding community. The adept plan is absolute and scalable and includes all of the amenities one would apprehend to acquisition in a gaming and ball destination. This plan aswell includes a hotel, added retail and restaurants, ball and added amenities based on association input.

In addition, avant-garde appearance such as family-friendly amenities for the account of employees, assemblage and the broader Queens association cover Kids Quest, a supervised alternate daycare centermost and Cyber Quest, a children's bold arcade.

Aqueduct Gaming's association appearance and initiatives include:

 

    Right-Sized Development and Community Input. Aqueduct Gaming's angle includes world-class gaming, ball and accommodation in a area advised to account the Queens neighborhood. Aqueduct Gaming, with cogent ascribe and accord from the association and advising groups, will complete a adept plan to actuate what added bread-and-butter development appearance (such as a hotel, appointment center, sports circuitous or ancestors ball center) are appropriate for the Queens community.
     
      Comprehensive Security and Safety Measures. Aqueduct Gaming will advance a first-rate aegis force to plan with bounded law enforcement, ensuring a safe and defended ability for guests, advisers and the surrounding community.
       
        Economic Benefits for Residents. Aqueduct Gaming pledges that a ample allotment of the abiding workforce will be Queens association and will authorize a accord ambition for the acquirement of appurtenances and casework from bounded vendors. To accomplish these goals, we will accessible a awful arresting Employment and Small Business Center, announcement application opportunities via job fairs at churches and added association locations and organizations, bounded media outlets and a Web site. Ms. Cheryl McKissack, one of the principals of Aqueduct Gaming and the buyer and administrator of African-American-owned McKissack and McKissack, will baby-sit the operation of the center, which will be accurate by Aqueduct Gaming on an advancing base and will coact with absolute organizations in the across to aerate the absolute allowances to the community.
         
          Establishment of a Community Foundation. Aqueduct Gaming has accustomed the Aqueduct Gaming Neighborhood Foundation to allotment a allocation of the profits with the community. Community assembly confined as foundation admiral will advice analyze bounded organizations and projects in charge of funding, with a focus on those that seek to advance the above of activity for Queens residents.
           
            Environmentally Friendly Design and Construction. Aqueduct Gaming will architecture the gaming ability to be Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified. Delaware North Companies has advised and complete every above activity for the endure four years to LEED standards. In addition, Aqueduct Gaming will use Delaware North's all-encompassing ecology administration program, GreenPath®. These efforts will ensure that both the architecture and the operations will be environmentally affable and will beat all State of New York standards.
             
              Daycare Center. As a family-friendly account for guests and advisers that aswell fits the community's admiration for elements acceptable the neighborhood, Aqueduct Gaming affairs to advance a Kids Quest alternate daycare centermost and cyber arcade at the venue.
              " Aqueduct Gaming's plan is the a lot of responsible, reliable plan for the community, the blood antagonism industry and the State of New York," said Bissett. "We are New Yorkers committed to accomplishing what's appropriate for every citizen of New York."

              Aqueduct Gaming LLC is a affiliation of arch New York companies. Led by Buffalo-based all-embracing gaming and ball behemothic Delaware North, the aggregation includes Saratoga Gaming and Raceway, McKissack & McKissack, Shawmut, and Thalden Emery.

              For added advice apropos Aqueduct Gaming's plan appointment www.aqueductgaming.com.

              About Delaware North Companies
              Delaware North Companies is one of the world's arch accommodation and aliment account providers. The aggregation is one of the better and a lot of admired abreast captivated companies in the United States with revenues beyond $2 billion annually and 50,000 assembly confined bisected a billion barter in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. It operates at world-class venues alignment from Kennedy Space Center and Yosemite National Park to London's Wembley Stadium and Boston's TD Garden, one of the top concert and sports venues in the world. The aggregation is aswell the buyer of several destination resorts and gaming properties. For added information, appointment www.DelawareNorth.com.

              About Saratoga Gaming and Raceway
              Saratoga Gaming and Raceway, New York's aboriginal video gaming facility, opened in January 2004 and has generated added than $200 actor in aid to apprenticeship in New York State. The ability currently houses over 1,700 video action terminals, pari-mutuel action facilities, abide antagonism and all-encompassing aliment and acknowledgment and ball options. The aggregation employs over 650 across association and its operation has contributed over $150 actor in anniversary bread-and-butter allowances to the statewide economy. Saratoga Gaming and Raceway is aswell a accomplice with Delaware North Companies in the operation of the celebrated Gideon Putnam Hotel in Saratoga Springs, NY. For added information, appointment www.saratogagamingandraceway.com .

              About McKissack & McKissack
              McKissack & McKissack is the oldest African-American, women-owned able architecture and architecture close in the United States. The close is a family-owned business accustomed in 1905; however, the company's agent dates aback 5 ancestors to the aboriginal brood of the McKissack family, who came to this country in 1790 as a slave. The aggregation has been a baton in the planning, design, and architecture of added than 6,000 projects, proudly advancement the standards of arete accustomed by its forefathers. The aggregation currently employs 120 advisers and has apprenticed added than $50 billion dollars in architecture over the endure decade.

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