Resorts World Catskills casino unveils new features

Casino executive said the gaming facility is expected to attract 4 million visitors annually. The tower's all-window glass façade is designed, on sunny days, to display a photo-realistic reflection of its surroundings. On a recent weekday inside the tallest building in Orange, Sullivan and Ulster counties, workers scurried and wires dangled.

Eighty percent of the traffic will come from Route 17′s Exit 106. The drivers entering the 24-7, 365-day-a-year property will pass fieldstone walls beneath high-end LED streetlights. They’ll toss their keys to a valet or pull into a 2,800-space garage before checking into an 18-story hotel.

Executive vice president of the casino, Charlie Degliomini, said luxury will be the priority for the whole property, from the personal pools in the garden suites to the private balconies and gym for elite third-floor guests, and several of the six eateries and three bars.

Visitors looking for a quick bite also can visit a food court when they’re not gaming, get their nails done in a salon or golf on the property’s Rees Jones-redesigned 18-hole golf course. However, gambling will be the biggest moneymaker. Degliomini expects Resorts World Catskills will give away 70 percent of its 332 suites to accommodate all the free-spending guests playing 130 table games and 2,150 slot machines.

Union representatives also are excited about the project improving the local economic picture by creating 1,400 jobs at Resorts World Catskills’ main hotel and the casino. Adding in the property’s future golf course and boutique hotel, a nearby indoor-family water park and hotel – owned by EPR Properties and due in spring 2019 – brings the property’s total job count to 2,200.