Mets and Delta announce new sponsorship extension

 NEW YORK METS AND DELTA AIR LINES ANNOUNCE A NEW, MULTI-YEAR SPONSORSHIP EXTENSION

 

Expanded Partnership Includes Naming Rights of the All-New Delta SKY360°Club

 

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FLUSHING, N.Y., March 12, 2024 – The New York Mets and Delta Air Lines today announced a multi-year sponsorship extension, with Delta remaining as the official airline partner of the New York Mets.  As part of the renewed partnership, the Mets and Delta have completely reimagined and expanded the club behind home plate, which will become the Delta SKY360° Club for the start of the 2024 season.

 

“We’re excited to continue our longstanding partnership with Delta Air Lines and to elevate the Delta SKY360° Club to a state-of-the-art space and luxury experience for our fans at Citi Field,” said Mets President of Business Operations, M. Scott Havens. “The Mets continue to focus on being a best-in-class organization, and the new Delta SKY360° Club is another testament to those efforts.”

 

With access to rows one through eight directly behind home plate, the Delta SKY360° Club puts members directly in the action for those looking for a unique ballpark experience. The exclusive, members only space will feature an expanded 7,000-plus square foot climate-controlled club, three-times larger than the previous space, with a private 50-foot bar and premium booth and lounge seating throughout the club. The Delta SKY360° Club also features an elevated all-inclusive culinary experience including a chef's studio, NY signature sushi station, freshly caught seafood, designated dessert station and ballpark favorites, as well as complimentary beer, wine and spirits.

 

With just over 400 seats, the premium membership to Delta SKY360° Club will include assigned luxury cushioned stadium seating outside the club with in-seat food delivery service, VIP parking and a newly renovated VIP entrance. Additionally, there will be a boutique retail store with exclusive merchandise adjacent to the club.

 

“We are thrilled to build on our relationship with the New York Mets and bring another premium space to Citi Field”, said Delta Chief Marketing Officer Alicia Tillman. “Whether in the stands or in the skies, we are continuing to expand our premium experiences and are proud to bring our Delta SKY360° Club to Mets fans and baseball enthusiasts from near and far this season to experience the best our partnership has to offer."

 

To learn more about the Delta SKY360° Club, please visit Mets.com/Premium.

 

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Darryl Strawberry Recovering From Heart Attack

From the NY Post

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Get well soon Darryl. You are in our thoughts here at themediagoon.com and the QBC.

Lots going on with this Mets Hat.

 

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Casino Bids/Concepts being released for Manhattan and Queens

More and more concepts are coming out for the downstate casino licenses have been getting revealed and if there was going to be one on Queens, I think Resorts World might be the way to go. Also releases were some ideas for a casino in Manhattan. I also think Citi Field doesn't need a casino as well as Manhattan not needing one either. You guys should check this out.

From World-Architects,com

 Some people in New York City are calling 2024 the year of the casino. Two years ago, state politicians authorized the awarding of three casino licenses for downstate New York. (Although voters approved Vegas-style gambling in 2013, then-governor Andrew Cuomo allowed upstate casinos to move forward first, so they didn't have to compete directly with NYC.) Lobbyists and people closely tracking the process assume two of the three licenses will go to the two already functioning “racinos” — facilities that have race tracks and slot machines but no card games, table games, and other Vegas-style gambling — in the area, one in Ozone Park, Queens, and the other in Yonkers, just north of the Bronx, since they can more easily and quickly expand to include casinos. That means local developers and national and international casino operators have to vie for just one license, and, as Freedom Plaza indicates, they are piling on neighborhood amenities to entice the powers-that-be to grant it to them.

Of the five Midtown Manhattan proposals, two of them would put the casino in existing buildings (Times Square and Saks), while the other three would include the casino as part of larger developments: at the base of two mixed-use towers with Silverstein; in the second phase of Hudson Yards, which was originally slated to be residential; and on a long-unbuilt empty void immediately south of the UN along the East River.

 

The three-block, 6.7-acre empty space that is now named Freedom Plaza, and which is already home to the Field of Light art installation, is owned by the Soloviev Group, the company run by Stefan Soloviev, son of developer Sheldon Solow, who died in 2020. (Soloviev uses an older spelling of the family name.) The Soloviev Group is the successor company to the Solow Building Corporation, which bought numerous parcels, including these the three blocks, from Consolidated Edison in 2000; the power company was decommissioning its power plant on the site, a process that took more than half a decade, so the plant was gone and the three blocks were graded by 2007. Put another way, the three-block site south of the UN has sat empty, fenced-off for fourteen years — no wonder it is being eyed for the lucrative casino bid.

Casinos are seen by proponents as tax generators that help fund schools and other public institutions, but opponents see them as places that generate traffic, entice already impoverished people to spend what little money they have, and encourage gambling addicts. Either way, a casino just steps from the United Nations, an organization that explicitly exists to “find shared solutions that benefit all of humanity,” is highly questionable; quizzical at best. Seeming to anticipate the expected naysayers, the Freedom Plaza team is proposing a long list of buildings and programs unrelated to the casino, which goes by the less loaded term “gaming facility” in a press release and would be practically invisible, buried beneath a 4.77-acre public park designed by OJB Landscape Architecture.

The other pieces of the development, all designed by BIG–Bjarke Ingels Group and comprising the bulk of the development, are:

• Two residential towers, 50 and 60 stories, that would include 1,325 apartments, nearly 40% of them permanently affordable;
• Two 51-story hotel towers (a Banyan Tree hotel and a Mohegan hotel)
• A conference and entertainment center; and
• The Museum of Freedom and Democracy.

The proposed Museum of Freedom and Democracy is the most overt attempt to align the development with its famous neighbor. Bjarke Ingels says in a statement that it “celebrates the origin and evolution of one of the most impactful inventions of mankind and our continuous struggle to build, maintain and protect the institutions that uphold it.” Anchoring the park, the museum takes the shape of a Möbius strip, providing walking paths atop it and sitting above a similarly shaped amphitheater “as a symbol of unity.” The form of the amphitheater “takes cues from the traditional Greek theater as a nod to those who created democracy thousands of years ago.”

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Resorts World puts in a bid.

From Casino.com

Resorts World New York City is among a crowded bidding pool trying to land one of New York’s three downstate casino licenses. That would that permit Las Vegas-style slot machines, table games, and sports betting.

Resorts World NYC is a racino that operates slot-like video lottery terminals (VLTs) and electronic table games. For the Genting-owned and operated property to secure slot and live dealer table game privileges, plus sports betting, the casino must win one of the three full-scale downstate casino concessions. Those are set to be issued by the New York Gaming Facility Location Board late this year or in 2025.

Companies pursuing the coveted downstate casino permits are willing to not only fork over the $500 million that each license costs, but also pitch the state substantial projects. Those, the developers say, will improve the community in which the casino would operate.

Genting’s plan unveiled this week includes not only an expanded casino space with major updates to the facility and many new hotel rooms. but also the construction of a 7,000-seat concert hall. Located at the Aqueduct Racetrack in the Queens neighborhoods of Ozone Park and Jamaica, Genting says if RW New York Citysecures one of the full-scale casino permits, it will additionally build an “innovation campus” with a sports academy for high school student-athletes.

That project would come at a major cost.

Expansion Details

Genting has already invested more than $1 billion into its Queens property. If it receives a full gaming license, company officials said Thursday they would pour another $5 billion into the resort to greatly expand the destination that’s near JFK airport.

When we stood here more than a dozen years ago to break ground on Resorts World New York City, our vision extended well beyond that already-ambitious original plan. Today, that vision can soon become a reality,” Robert DeSalvio, president of Genting America East, said Thursday.

The proposal includes 1,600 new hotel rooms, 30 new restaurant and drinking concepts, the 7,000-seat concert venue, and 3,000 units of employee housing offered at affordable rates.

The casino would balloon to 350,000 square feet. A 50-acre outdoor park was also detailed in Thursday’s project revelation.

Willets Point Development Phase 2 gets another approval.

From QNS.com

The massive Willets Point redevelopment project passed another key milestone Wednesday when the City Planning Commission voted unanimously to approve phase two of the plan that calls for a 25,000-seat soccer-specific stadium, 1,400 units of affordable housing, a 250-room hotel, a 650-seat public school, 80,000 square feet of retail space and nearly three acres of open space.

The city broke ground on the first phase of the project in December to build an initial 880 affordable apartments in what will be New York City’s largest affordable housing development to be built since the 1970s, on city-owned land that was known as the Iron Triangle that was home to a warren of automotive shops and junk yards across Tom Seaver Way from Citi Field.

Richards approved the project with conditions regarding local hiring, community partnerships and area infrastructure improvements. The recommendation came after a well-attended public hearing in December 2023.

” I was proud to recommend approval of this project earlier this year and I appreciate the diligence of all involved as we make this initiative as community-focused as possible,” Richards said.

With the City Planning Commission giving the project the green light, the proposal will go before the City Council within 50 days for a hearing and a vote that will determine the project’s fate. The council is likely to approve the plan, given it has Moya’s backing.

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I know Steve Cohen keeps saying that they need a casino over there because there is nothing to do by Citi Field. This area is going to be finished before the casino would be if that gets approved. I still don't think a casino should be near affordable housing and a school.