The owner of a New Jersey racetrack is willing to wait for six year in order to summon the dead North Jersey casino plan initiative back to life.

A proposal to allow two new casinos in northern New Jersey has sustained an overwhelming defeat in last November’s referendum but Meadowlands operator Jeff Gural is no yet giving up his dream of building a casino there.

The Associated Press reported that Gural is planning to revive a casino expansion referendum after six years. By that time, Gural pointed out that the neighboring New York state has already opened three more casinos and that residents of New Jersey will be begging for a casino to compete against them.

“I can last as long as it’s going to take,” Gural said at the East Coast Gaming Congress in Atlantic City. “I’d rather wait six years until New York is either open or ready to open, and then voters will say, ‘Wait a minute.’”