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Casino Delays Costing Massachusetts

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published July 22, 2015 at 11:03 AM EDT
An artist's rendering of MGM Resorts proposed casino in Springfield, MA
MGM Springfield
An artist's rendering of MGM Resorts proposed casino in Springfield, MA
An artist's rendering of MGM Resorts proposed casino in Springfield, MA
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The proposed MGM Springfield casino is not expected to open until 2018

A new report says delays in building the two licensed resort casinos in Massachusetts could cost the state $ 1 billion in lost revenue. 

The opening of the casinos planned in eastern and western Massachusetts could be pushed back to 2018. Because that is two years later than originally anticipated the state would lose $1 billion in projected revenue, according to the Boston Globe.  

    In Springfield, MGM wants to delay its casino because of major repair work just beginning on I-91.          

Massachusetts Gaming Commission Chairman Stephen Crosby said he would like the casinos to open as soon as possible, but there are circumstances beyond anyone’s control.

" What we are here for is long term gain," he said.

The proposed Wynn casino in Everett is facing a difficult environmental review and lawsuits by neighboring cities.

Copyright 2015 WAMC Northeast Public Radio
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Paul Tuthill
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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