Sardi’s is a Broadway institution in Manhattan’s Theater District. But the famed restaurant’s owner, Max Klimavicius, doesn’t want a casino coming to the district.
1515 Broadway in Times Square is being targeted for a casino development by Big Apple real estate giant SL Green in a partnership with Caesars Entertainment. Times Square — the “Crossroads of the World” — is within New York’s Theater District in Midtown Manhattan.
Klimavicius says a casino is the last thing the Theater District needs. He opined in an op-ed published today in the New York Daily News that allowing gambling in Times Square would be “a losing bet.”
Klimavicius says he’s “still haunted” by the 648 days that his business was forced to shutter amid COVID-19. The man who has owned the iconic Theater District establishment since the 1990s says theater audiences are beginning to return following the pandemic.
But allowing a casino to open in Times Square in the coming years, Klimavicius opined, would threaten many small businesses, including restaurants. Klimavicius says these eateries are essential to the quintessential Broadway experience.
1515 Broadway in Times Square is being targeted for a casino development by Big Apple real estate giant SL Green in a partnership with Caesars Entertainment. Times Square — the “Crossroads of the World” — is within New York’s Theater District in Midtown Manhattan.
Klimavicius says a casino is the last thing the Theater District needs. He opined in an op-ed published today in the New York Daily News that allowing gambling in Times Square would be “a losing bet.”
Klimavicius says he’s “still haunted” by the 648 days that his business was forced to shutter amid COVID-19. The man who has owned the iconic Theater District establishment since the 1990s says theater audiences are beginning to return following the pandemic.
But allowing a casino to open in Times Square in the coming years, Klimavicius opined, would threaten many small businesses, including restaurants. Klimavicius says these eateries are essential to the quintessential Broadway experience.
