MGM RESORTS SUPPORTS COLLEGE READINESS - Westfair Communications

From left: Uri Clinton, Empire City COO; Yonkers City Council Majority Leader Michael Sabatino; and City Councilman John Rubbo.

Global entertainment and hospitality company, MGM Resorts and Empire City Casino, its wholly owned subsidiary located in Yonkers is supporting Yonkers Partners in Education (YPIE)”™s new state-of-the-art learning space, the YPIE College Zone.

“We are excited to support this important program and demonstrate MGM Resort”™s dedication to Yonkers and its public school students,” said Empire City Casino President and COO Uri Clinton.

The new YPIE College Zone, a 5000-plus-square-foot after-school learning space, brings together hundreds of Yonkers public high school students each week to learn, be inspired and be part of a community on the path to college success.

“In a very short time, MGM Resorts has created an impressive presence in Yonkers as a wonderful corporate citizen,” said Sam Wallis, incoming executive director, YPIE.

Additionally, MGM Resorts will partner with YPIE to create exciting learning experiences, such as having MGM”™s best-in-class culinary team teach lessons for small groups of students throughout the year.

MGM Resorts has a long track record of giving back to the communities in which it has resorts. The company”™s Feeding Forward initiative rescued 325,000 pounds of unserved food from its resorts in 2018, providing 270,000 meals to the hungry in southern Nevada. MGM”™s passion for hunger relief goes beyond Nevada to all their regional communities, where they donate dollars and service.