There’s certainly the ability to have more than one product in a geographic area, as we’ve done many times in our industry.”Īllen said there is a danger of a Hard Rock project in New York or northern New Jersey siphoning business from its Atlantic City casino. “I think we have to look at all the different circumstances. “I’m not saying we would drop a Meadowlands option,” he said. New Jersey’s Constitution would have to be amended to allow casino gambling outside Atlantic City, and a referendum to allow it was resoundingly defeated by voters in 2016. If Hard Rock is chosen to build a New York City casino just a few miles away, that would not necessarily mean it would scrap plans to build one at the Meadowlands as well, he said. Hard Rock holds a partial ownership stake in the Meadowlands racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey, just outside New York City, and has proposed building a casino there - a plan that still remains viable, Allen said. Many of the major gambling and hospitality companies have also expressed interest in building a New York casino. Allen said he expects the actual selection process to begin in late summer or early fall, assuming the necessary legislation to authorize as many as three casinos is enacted by then.