More than a dozen companies once promised to bid for one of New York’s three available downstate casino licenses. Eight spent millions of dollars preparing site plans, figuring out zoning and unions and making public presentations.

In the end, just three made it through a regulatory gauntlet and are left standing ahead of Monday’s vote by the state’s Gaming Facility Location Board, where the key question is no longer how many bidders will be left out but rather will the three survivors win approval.

The vote also comes after a decadeslong process and amid trends in which casinos, while still profitable, often aren’t producing as much revenue for local governments as sometimes projected, experts say.

The three remaining competitors are proposing casinos within the borders of New

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