Wynn Resorts Development, LLC
Lobbying client
The development subsidiary of Wynn Resorts, the Las Vegas casino operator, that pursued a roughly $12 billion casino, hotel, and residential complex at Hudson Yards West in partnership with Related Companies, requiring both a state gaming license and a city rezoning. The project drew fierce opposition from West Side residents and the local council member, and Wynn withdrew in May 2025, citing 'years of persistent opposition.' It filed 40 disclosures since 2024, lobbying all 51 council members through Empire Consulting Group, Mercury Public Affairs, and Tonio Burgos & Associates on the Hudson Yards West zoning application and gaming-license bid.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 40
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $626,714
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Empire Consulting Group, Inc. Lobbyist firm
- Mercury Public Affairs, LLC Lobbyist firm
- Tonio Burgos & Associates, Inc. Lobbyist firm
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Determination of Board or Commission - Casino Gaming License
- State Issue - Matters of interest to Wynn
- State Issue - State issue
- State Issue - casinos
- State Issue - related to casino start up in NYC area
- State Issue - related to gaming