What was proposed for Winston Farm?
In meetings this spring with Saugerties officials, shopping-mall developer Paul Wilmot and the Oklahoma-based Seneca-Cayuga tribe described a Las Vegas-style Class III casino resort that would include: * a 1.2 million-square-foot resort/casino” (more than the total square feet of casino floor space in Atlantic City) * 1 million square feet of retail space (bigger than the Hudson Valley Mall) * a 750,000-square-foot convention center (almost the size of Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York) * a 900-room hotel (50% bigger than The Plaza in New York) * parking for 23,500 vehicles in five garages (three times the spaces at Shea Stadium) * a 27-hole PGA golf course Furthermore, they said this was the “initial phase,” and that “subsequent phases [would] add 1.7 million square feet of additional resort uses for the casinos and restaurants” with “3 distinct resorts on one property.” The future phases would include a 500,000-square-foot, 20,000-seat sports and entertainment arena (bigg
