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Public Presentation Scheduled To Explain MGM Springfield Casino Changes

The new design for MGM's Springfield casino as depicted by this artist's drawing eliminates a 25-story hotel that was part of the original design going back several years.
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The new design for MGM's Springfield casino as depicted by this artist's drawing eliminates a 25-story hotel that was part of the original design going back several years.
The new design for MGM's Springfield casino as depicted by this artist's drawing eliminates a 25-story hotel that was part of the original design going back several years.
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MGM officials will have a chance next week to explain to a skeptical public the reasons behind the proposed downsizing of the Springfield casino.

  City officials have arranged for MGM to make a public presentation Wednesday afternoon at the 300 seat City Stage theater.  MGM has been under fire in Springfield since disclosing last month, in a regulatory filing, plans to reduce the scope of the project by 14 percent.

Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno has said his administration is carefully reviewing the proposed changes.

" I will continue to fight tooth and nail to make sure that everything MGM agreed to in our community host agreement will be realized," Sarno said.

MGM officials are scheduled to appear before the Massachusetts Gaming Commission next Thursday to explain the changes in the casino project.

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Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.

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