ALBANY — The $630 million Montreign casino, part of the billion-dollar Adelaar resort planned for the southeast corner of the old Concord property in Monticello, earned the NYS Gaming Facility Location Board's recommendation today as the only casino to be licensed by the NYS Gaming Commission in the Catskills/Hudson Valley region.

Mohegan Sun's proposal, along with the Nevele in Ulster County and a range of competitors in Orange County, were not chosen, paving the way for Monticello Casino and Raceway operator Empire Resorts and Adelaar developer EPR Properties to undertake the largest of several construction options envisioned (other nearby casinos would have shrunken the scope, said Empire/EPR officials in the past).

The recommendation, if followed by the Gaming Commission next year, will ostensibly make the Adelaar/Montreign resort a major destination in the Northeast.

Also landing license recommendations today were the Lago proposal in Tyre (Finger Lakes/Southern Tier region) and the Rivers proposal in Schenectady (Capital/Saratoga region). Though a fourth casino license was contemplated, no recommmendation was announced for such.