![]() ![]() Navegante beat out several gaming industry heavyweights for the Aqueduct deal during a contentious bidding process, including MGM Mirage, Harrah’s, Penn National, Wynn Resorts Ltd. Las Vegas-based Navegante Group, a casino management company headed by veteran gaming executive Larry Woolf, was in partnership with several New York companies that formed Aqueduct Entertainment. The sixth bidder was Toronto-based Clairvest Group, which was one of the partners in Aqueduct Entertainment Group, which won the bidding process earlier this year, only to have the deal rejected six weeks later. Manhattan’s largest commercial landlord, SL Green, and the Saratoga Racetrack, also submitted their interest. ![]() Penn National Gaming submitted a letter as did Delaware North, a Buffalo, N.Y.-based company that had partnered with Harrah’s Entertainment last year. The New York Lottery Division, which is overseeing the bidding process, released the names Wednesday.Īmong the half-dozen initial letters of interests, which includes a $1 million refundable entry fee, was a joint submission from Empire City Casino-Yonkers Raceway and Genting New York LLC, an off-shoot of Malaysian-based casino operator Genting, which recently opened Resorts World Sentosa, one of two casinos in Singapore. Six entities have entered the restarted bidding process to operate a slot machine-only casino at New York Aqueduct Racetrack, but absent from the group was the winner of the previous aborted go-round. ![]()
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