The Hnedak Bobo Group, designers of the Hard Rock Café New Orleans and the upscale Westin Memphis Beale Street Hotel have been retained to create a vision for the Wizard of Oz-themed project, and Hayner Hoyt Corporation of Syracuse will handle the construction management and general contracting work with an anticipated opening in Spring of this year.Ĭhittenango is known as the birthplace of prolific author L. Yellow Brick Road Casino will be located at 800 West Genesee Street (Highway 5) in Chittenango, New York, in a currently unused and soon to be remodeled portion of Top’s Friendly Markets. In exchange for the 10 county exclusivity the Tribe will hand over 25% of its slot revenues to state and local governments – that number is expected to reach $50 million next year including proceeds from the new casino.

The Yellow Brick Road Casino didn’t have to jump through any hoops, nor wait for a license as the Tribe is allowed by Gaming Compacts with the federal government as well as the state to open as many casinos as they want to in a 10 county area.Ī settlement signed by the governor in 2013 and upheld by a federal judge in March of 2014 gives the Oneida Tribe exclusive rights to open and operate casinos in a 10 county area surrounding their Turning Stone Resort, as long as the venues are on tribal land.

Betting on sports futures, props and lay betsįour days after the New York Gaming Facilities Board announced its recommendations for three casino licenses in Upstate New York, the Oneida Indian Nation announced it would be opening a new casino on tribal lands in early 2015.

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