Category: casino
04/19/06 12:25 - ID#35760
casino talk
As further reference to just how close the proposed casino will be to poverty, please reference the Google map below. I obtained the map by googling municipal housing, buffalo, ny (GOOGLE - municipal housing, buffalo, ny). Result D, which is shown on the map, is the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority Employment Opportunity Center (though sadly it's actually mispelled). The casino would be less than a block from multiple housing projects. (e:joshua,142)
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I get to see alot of casinos because of how much I travel. I don't think there is any evidence whatsoever that casinos explicitly target low income areas for any reason other than cost. Somebody please explain to me why the WOULDN'T choose an area that has available and cheap land... what are the Senecas supposed to do; build in Amherst or Clarence because a few people think that if they don't they are trying to victimize low income people? BALONEY. Naturally that implies that if they target low income areas that they are targeting low income people - now we are back in Mike Niman territory. If some of you argue that even if casinos wanted to build in more affluent areas that residents and politicians would try to stop it, then you're in an area that I think I'm in agreement with you on. Did anybody ask the residents of Perry St. what they thought about the casino?
Around our country casinos outside of AC or LV are built primarily on tribal land or along bodies of water - I see this all the time. Some are riverboats. Just like any business, casinos are built where a) a high amount of traffic takes place and b) where is most affordable. A combination of these two factors is considered, with the possible exception of tourist attraction areas just like Niagara Falls.
Lets remember that the only reason this casino is even being considered is because of the potential to draw tourists from NF - people wouldn't ever come to Buffalo explicitly to gamble. This is a very "Buffalo" thing - people are in agreement about the casino being a terrible idea yet people are still arguing about WHY its a bad idea.
With that in mind, the choice of location is most likely due to the fact that it's easier to grab a lot of land cheap near the less desirable neighborhoods. (i.e. public housing)
There's always the "added benefit" that those with less means (and less access to transportation) can still reach the casino. (That way they can pour their resources down the drain like everyone else.)
We can't legislate fiscal responsibility, so I guess it's their choice whether or not to support the "new business" in their back yard.
The city wanted a run-down, depressed neighborhood so that it would be easier to take peoples' homes and generally push people around; and where there was lots of land available.
Guess where the projects are typically put? In a depressed neighborhood...