Las Vegas Sands' proposed $4B casino draws 300 to public meeting
Engineers and planners are expected to survey traffic at more than 100 intersections, the availability of drinking water from public and private wells and the impact on air quality of Las Vegas Sands' proposed $4 billion casino resort on the site of the Nassau Coliseum, witnesses at a Hempstead Town hearing said Thursday.
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Grant Newburger of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Nassau and Suffolk praised the Sands proposal.
“A project of this scale has never been seen before on Long Island. I'd like to point out that five years ago you could not name a billion dollar project here on Long Island, but here it's the 4 or 5 billion number — it's unprecedented,” Newburger said.
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Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, also testified Thursday in favor of the casino project.
“Frankly, no matter what we put there, we are going to have more traffic, we are going to use water, we're going to have energy consumption and we're going to have waste generation,” Esposito said. “The question is, are we going develop that area with a company that believes in environmental stewardship or are we going to develop that area that doesn't care about environment?”
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