ELLENVILLE – The owners of the Nevele
hotel property in Ellenville Wednesday unveiled their “Plan B”
to redevelop the iconic resort now that the state has selected the Empire
Resort’s Sullivan County facility as the only location in the Catskills
for a full-scale gaming facility.
The Nevele was hoping to win one of those licenses, but short of that,
company principal Michael Treanor announced plans to build a $100 million
world-class destination sports facility.
The project would include 750 video lottery terminals, synthetic turf
fields, indoor aquatics center and a full array of technology to attract
talented amateur athletes from the metropolitan area and beyond to Upstate
New York.
In order to include VLTs, the state would have to give its okay.
The entire project would be built on the Nevele resort property and the
neighboring site of the former Horses in the Sun venue in Wawarsing, which
the development team acquired control of last year.
