Resorts World New York City is looking to expand by unveiling New York State's largest fully integrated resort as early as July 2026.
The $5.5 billion proposal to the six-person Community Advisory Committee (CAC) would transform the 73-acre Aqueduct site in Queens into a sprawling entertainment hub with a 5.6 million-square-foot integrated resort.
If approved, highlights would include as many as 2,000 hotel rooms, a 7,000-seat arena, 6,000 slot machines, 800 gaming tables, more than 30 food and beverage outlets, a spa and more than a dozen acres of community greenspace.
The project would also include more than 7,000 parking spaces and up to 24,000 jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars of tax revenue for New York.
Rendering of Resorts World New York City expansion proposal. (Photo Credit: Resorts World New York City/Perkins Eastman)
"We're proud to have grown with the Queens community for nearly 15 years. What the Community Advisory Committee heard today was a vision for a transformative project that will be a game-changer for this borough, the city, and the state," said Robert DeSalvio, President of Genting Americas East.
"Since Resorts World was granted operations of the Aqueduct site in 2010, we have sought to be a neighbor that Queens deserves, providing 1,000 good union jobs, invested millions of dollars into our neighbors, and built everlasting bonds with the community," he added. "But we also made them a promise to do more in every sense of the term, and today's proposal lays out just how we will."
Resorts World Chief Legal and Strategy Officer Kevin Jones called the expansion plan "almost risk-free" as all land-use approvals have already been granted.
Resorts World New York City first opened in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New York, not far from John F. Kennedy International Airport in 2011.
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