'…Empire City has been beset by delays since the state Legislature approved it.
3, which would see the first 1,871 of 5,500 planned video gaming machines open in the 107-year-old track's renovated clubhouse. 'Timothy Rooney Jr., the track's general counsel and son of owner Timothy Rooney, said the raceway was now shooting for a 'soft opening' Oct. Tim Rooney, Jr., general counsel of Empire City Casino has been named 2015 Grand Marshal for the 60th Annual Yonkers St. 'The state Division of Lottery, in a report issued in August, had targeted yesterday as the opening of Empire City at Yonkers Raceway, the largest of eight planned video gaming facilities approved by the state Legislature. Empire City Casino and Yonkers Raceway announced a deal at the beginning of this week to sell to MGM Resorts for 850 million, thus ending the 46-year ownership by the Rooney family and, according to a report in, giving the casino giant a major gambling hall just 15 miles from Times Square. a string of delays that have beset the project since its approval five years ago. Providing our players with a heightened experience is paramount, said Tim Rooney, Chairman and Owner of Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway. They're getting the video slots ready at Empire City CasinoĮmpire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway is now open. YONKERS, New York – As reported by the New York Journal News: 'Yonkers Raceway has pushed back its planned opening of a $240 million video lottery casino to early next month, another in
