It takes more than steel and cement to construct a building.
For one as large in scale as the new Belmont Park, it requires a treasure chest of money—somewhere in the ritzy neighborhood of about a half-billion dollars—and a ton of support.
All of that was on display Oct. 15 at the famed Elmont, N.Y., racing facility as a score of political, business, and racing leaders turned out for ceremonies to celebrate the placement of the clubhouse/grandstand’s final steel beam…