Genting New York LLC, which does business as Resorts World New York City, broke ground July 22 on the second phase of its Queens expansion, which the company puts at $5.5 billion, according to the company's news page. The RFI Wire found no trade-package list, bid schedule or construction manager's name in its press release or on its project pages.

Phase 2 adds a 400-room hotel tower to the existing Hyatt Regency, 1,200 Crockfords-branded rooms and a 7,000-seat arena, according to the company's release. The Gaming Facility Location Board's Dec. 1, 2025 selection document counted $3.3 billion under the state's definition of capital investment and described 1,600 Crockfords rooms.

“The Location Board's August 2023 answers say firms must be certified through Empire State Development to count toward the state's 30 percent M/WBE goal.”

The company received a gaming facility license effective Dec. 15, 2025, according to the New York State Gaming Commission's license document.

No contractor is named in Resorts World's groundbreaking release or in the coverage of it that The RFI Wire reviewed. DeSimone Consulting Engineers, which describes its role as structural design, credits Suffolk Construction as construction manager in an Aug. 17 project update on its website. The RFI Wire found no confirmation from Resorts World and no Resorts World project on Suffolk's website. The same update lists Perkins Eastman Architects as architect, Vanderweil Engineers for mechanical, electrical and plumbing, and Langan for civil engineering.

Resorts World's state application describes a project labor agreement, dated June 2025, with the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York and Vicinity, covering the full scope of the proposal, according to its labor harmony exhibit. The RFI Wire found no posted text of the agreement.

Aqueduct is State-owned land, according to the State's environmental review notice. Resorts World operates under a ground lease from the State, acting through the Franchise Oversight Board, and The RFI Wire found no State solicitation for the Phase 2 construction.

A 2024 supplier-diversity filing says Resorts World will contact certified and local firms found through partner organizations, including Greater Jamaica Development Corporation, the Queens Chamber of Commerce and the Queens Economic Development Corporation, and through the city's SBS Connect directory. It then sends them its vendor registration form, and sends solicitations after they register. Contractors that aren't certified must file a diversity plan with a 30 percent utilization commitment, the filing says. The Location Board said in its selection document that only about 1 percent of the investment was projected to benefit Queens firms, and called that share extremely low and said it should be improved.

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. Resorts World's vendor form asks for state and city certification, or a diversity plan.

The public door is Resorts World's New Vendor and Responsibility Questionnaire on rwnewyork.com. Its buy list covers operations, including facilities, food and beverage, hotel supplies and services, and does not list construction trades. The page says approved suppliers may be invited to bid, and it asks for a W-9, a conflict-of-interest form and a diversity certificate or plan. A separate site, resortsworld.supplier.bid, is titled for Resorts World Catskills in Monticello, and The RFI Wire could not confirm that it serves the Queens project.

DACK Consulting Solutions, Inc. is listed on Eventbrite as the organizer of a contractor information session on the expansion in March. DACK's website lists no Resorts World project, and Resorts World's state filings do not mention DACK. The RFI Wire found no vendor fair or contractor session on or after Nov. 3 in its searches of Resorts World's site, Eventbrite and the Queens Chamber of Commerce.

Resorts World's community desk and DACK Consulting Solutions did not respond before publication to emails sent Nov. 3 about the construction manager, trade-package timing and M/WBE sub bidding. Suffolk Construction and DeSimone Consulting Engineers were not asked for comment.

What to do next

Find out who is buying before you pitch anyone. The only construction-manager credit is one engineer's project update, so ask Resorts World's community desk who runs trade buyout before you spend time on a package for the wrong firm.

If your firm qualifies as a minority- or women-owned business, check which certificate you hold. Empire State Development certification is what counts toward the state's goal, according to the Location Board. 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. Keep your SBS Connect profile complete too, since the 2024 filing says Resorts World searches there.

Fill out the vendor questionnaire so your firm is on Resorts World's list when packages go out, though its buy list does not name construction trades. The project labor agreement covers the full scope of the proposal, so a non-union firm should ask Resorts World whether it has a path.