- Wynn Resorts isn’t concerned with the Tysons on line casino talks
- Renderings have proven an Encore-branded on line casino just like the one on the Las Vegas Strip
Wynn Resorts has clarified that it has little to no involvement within the push to deliver a industrial on line casino resort to Tysons in Northern Virginia.
A on line casino rendering for Tysons in Fairfax County makes use of Wynn Resorts’ Encore likeness for the resort element. Wynn Resorts shouldn’t be instantly concerned within the Northern Virginia on line casino talks. (Picture: Comstock Corporations)
This week, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors formally opposed state laws that may allow a on line casino inside the county. Since 2023, a number of lawmakers in Richmond have urged including the prosperous Northern Virginia county to the checklist of areas the place casinos can function.
Regional actual property agency Comstock Corporations has been behind the legislative talks led by Fairfax’s state Democratic Sens. David Marsden and Scott Surovell. In renderings launched by Comstock exhibiting what a on line casino in Tysons may seem like, a resort idea is proven in basic Wynn type with the Encore branding.
Wynn Talks Northern Virginia
On line casino.org reached out to Wynn Resorts for clarification concerning the firm’s involvement with Comstock and if it’s pursuing a on line casino in Northern Virginia. An organization spokesperson stated Wynn Resorts didn’t produce the Comstock rendering exhibiting the Encore constructing.
The Wynn government stated the corporate usually engages builders throughout the nation about attainable collaborations. However, thus far, talks in Northern Virginia haven’t materialized into something severe.
Wynn Resorts operates three casinos domestically, with Wynn and Encore Las Vegas, and Encore Boston Harbor in Everett, Mass. The corporate is moreover closely invested in China’s Macau with Wynn Palace Cotai and Wynn Macau. Wynn additionally operates the distinguished Wynn Mayfair in London.
Wynn Resorts plans to open Wynn Al Marjan Island in early 2027 within the United Arab Emirates.
Comstock On line casino
Comstock Corporations is hoping to construct a on line casino resort close to the Spring Hill Metro Station subsequent to the Adaire residential high-rise. Comstock’s renderings recommend redeveloping a lot of the 30-acre property between Spring Hill Rd. and Tyco Rd. at Leesburg Pike.
For that to occur, state lawmakers should go laws to permit Fairfax County to host a on line casino, and for Comstock to win the event proper by way of a aggressive bid and/or native referendum. Whereas the Fairfax Supervisors and most owners and civic teams oppose the on line casino, some state lawmakers imagine gaming might rescue the county’s finances woes whereas moreover producing appreciable tax income for Richmond.
The Fairfax County Authorities is projecting restricted income progress and price pressures for the 2027 fiscal yr, leading to an estimated $131.5 million finances hole.
Fairfax County is presently going through a $130 million finances deficit, they usually’re going through a deficit so far as the attention can see,” Surovell advised CBS9 in DC this week. “They always ask us for extra authority to lift income, and this may current an enormous alternative.”
As for the supervisors itemizing their opposition to a on line casino of their 2026 Legislative Program, Surovell opined, “I feel they’re being form of overreactive about it and listening to a really small group of people that mainly don’t need one thing of their yard.”