Nominations to the New York Gaming Facility Location Board were unanimously approved by the New York State Gaming Commission. Stuart Rabinowitz, Vicki Been, and Quenia Abreu were nominated.
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 The board's duties include assessing and approving commercial casino applications in the US state and suggesting three additional facilities for licensure.

 Upstate New York, which includes New York City, is home to three potential casinos, and in April, lawmakers in the Empire State approved the plans.  Even though the first licenses won't be handed out until later next year, the board will send out a request for applications to anyone interested in applying for a casino by January 6, 2023.

 Brian O'Dwyer, chair of the commission, expressed his deepest gratitude for the people' willingness to take on the responsibility, calling it a pure public service.  Through capital, investment, direct and construction employment, tax revenues, and a host of other positive outcomes, "this competitive process and the resulting projects can lead to real transformation of communities."

 In her role as president and chief executive officer of the non-profit New York Women's Chamber of Commerce, Abreu spearheads the organization's efforts to promote minority and women company ownership, microenterprise, and self-employment as means to economic empowerment.

 After serving as director of the Women's Business Resource Centre at Hunts Point and the Women's Business Centre at Queens Economic Development Corporation, she has been the group's leader since August 2003.

 In addition to his roles as faculty head of the Furman Centre for Real Estate and Urban Policy and affiliated professor of public policy at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Been holds the position of Boxer Family Professor of Law at NYU School of Law.

 Has recently returned to NYU after serving as New York City's commissioner of housing preservation and development and deputy mayor for housing and economic development.

 The areas of practice of Rabinowitz include constitutional law, civil rights law, voting rights law, education law (including higher education), labour relations, economic development liaison with local, state, and federal agencies and officers, and appellate litigation (both state and federal). Rabinowitz is senior counsel to the law firm Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone.

 While in New York, he was a member of the Gaming Facility Location Board from 2014 to 2015.