Bally's Corporation has announced no contract with a general contractor or construction manager for its planned casino at Ferry Point in the Bronx, which the company puts at $4 billion, and The RFI Wire found no bid list on its project website as of Nov. 3.
The New York State Gaming Commission awarded Bally's Corporation, which does business as Bally's Bronx, a gaming facility license effective Dec. 15, 2025, according to the license document on the Commission's website. Bally's said Oct. 2 that it closed $400 million in initial term loans for pre-construction costs, with $160 million in delayed-draw commitments still available, and that it expects to open by 2030.
“The Location Board's August 2023 answers say firms must be certified through Empire State Development's Division of Minority and Women's Business Development to count toward the state's 30 percent M/WBE goal.”
Bally's June 2025 application to the state lists Suffolk Construction as general contractor and Caspers Henderson as construction consultant. The posted copy of the application's construction timeline is redacted. The RFI Wire found no Bally's announcement of a contract with Suffolk and no Bronx casino project on Suffolk's website.
A new-building application listing Bally's Corporation as owner was filed July 7 with the New York City Department of Buildings for a 19-story building of about 3.07 million square feet at 538 Hutchinson River Parkway. Gensler Architecture, Design & Planning is the applicant. The department approved a test-pile filing July 21, a support-of-excavation filing Aug. 7 and an underground plumbing filing Oct. 20.
The only work permit The RFI Wire found issued for that parcel is a $500,000 construction fence permit issued May 18 to Gramercy Group, Inc., with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (NYC Parks) listed as owner on the filing. Tishman Interiors Corp. holds four permits at 101 Hutchinson River Parkway for temporary trailers and clubhouse work, issued June 3 to July 21, also listing NYC Parks as owner. The filers' figures run from $130,000 to $511,719. A permit shows who pulled it, not who hired the firm or who holds the casino contract. Bally's Oct. 2 financing release, the project-firms list in its application and the Location Board's Dec. 1, 2025 selection document do not name a Tishman company.
Bally's application sets a 30 percent M/WBE utilization goal, split 15 percent minority-owned and 15 percent women-owned, on contracts above $25,000 for goods and services and above $100,000 for construction, according to its M/WBE partnerships exhibit. The Location Board said in its Dec. 1, 2025 selection document that none of the applicants made binding diversity commitments beyond best-efforts pledges.
The Location Board's Aug. 30, 2023 questions and answers on the casino application said entities counted toward the state's 30 percent M/WBE goal must be certified through the Division of Minority and Women's Business Development at Empire State Development. Bally's application says it will recognize certifications from the New York City Department of Small Business Services, Empire State Development, the New York City School Construction Authority, the NY/NJ Minority Supplier Development Council and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Bally's named The Velez Organization as its partner for M/WBE and local inclusion. The application describes Velez as a minority- and woman-owned construction management firm and says it will give Bally's access to a prequalified database of certified minority, women and local firms and help prime contractors find them. The RFI Wire found no mention of Bally's on Velez's website and no public sign-up for the database.
The application also promised a Community Engagement Office, an online vendor portal and procurement workshops, and said Bally's would broker joint ventures between prime contractors and M/WBE firms on foundation and steel work. It said early foundation, steel, post-tensioned concrete, underground utility and facade subcontracts would be awarded on design documents issued six to nine months after the license. The RFI Wire found no sign-up page, vendor portal, workshop schedule or award announcement on Bally's websites Nov. 3, and the Construction & Sourcing page on ballysbronx.com had no content.
Three public doors turned up, none of them a Bally's bid list. Bally's corporate supplier page says all potential vendors must complete a registration form, which first asks for the name of a Bally's contact. The Bronx Chamber of Commerce runs a page, "Bally's Bronx Development: Connecting Bronx Businesses to Opportunity," with an interest form and links to M/WBE certification help, and it lists no solicitations. Gramercy Group posts a prequalification form on its website for certified minority, women, disadvantaged, veteran and small-business subcontractors and suppliers.
Bally's media relations, The Velez Organization, Gramercy Group, Inc. and the Bronx Chamber did not respond before publication to emails sent Nov. 3 about the construction team, the vendor programs and the M/WBE goals. AECOM's media office, asked Nov. 3 about Tishman Interiors Corp., had not responded either. Suffolk Construction was not asked for comment.
What to do next
If your firm qualifies as a minority- or women-owned business, check which certificate you hold. Bally's says it will recognize city, state and other certifications, but the Location Board's 2023 answers say only firms certified through Empire State Development count toward the state's 30 percent goal. Empire State Development's page lists the city's Small Business Services among its Fast Track partners, which gives a firm a short application. It limits Fast Track to first-time state applicants, bars out-of-state firms and says the state can still ask for a full application.
Register on Bally's supplier page, which first asks for the name of a Bally's contact, and use the Bronx Chamber's interest form. The Velez Organization has no public sign-up for the database Bally's described, so ask Velez how a firm gets into it. Bally's said it would broker joint ventures between prime contractors and M/WBE firms on foundation and steel work, so a smaller firm's way in on those packages may be through a prime.
Check the Department of Buildings record for Ferry Point each week. A permit lists the firm that pulled it, so a foundation or excavation permit on the new-building job would show who is working that scope.