HONG KONG/LOS ANGELES (July 14): New York’s Resorts World Casino, the top-grossing slots parlor in the US, broke ground on a new 400-room hotel, part of the Malaysian group Genting’s renewed multistate effort to broaden its appeal to American gamblers.

The hotel marks a US$400 million ($550 million) expansion at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens that will include additional casino space, along with new retail, dining and entertainment, Resorts World and its parent announced Thursday in a statement.

After a lull in its US activity, Genting is stepping up. The company recently began work on the first major new casino on the Las Vegas Strip in a decade, after letting the project idle for four years. Genting is trying to gain approval for a project near Boston, and its 88-percent owned Empire Resorts Inc. plans to open a US$1.2 billion casino resort in the Catskill mountains outside New York in March.

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