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MGM To Begin Demolition For Springfield Casino

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published January 11, 2016 at 7:48 AM EST
Construction workers at the March 2015 ceremonial groundbreaking for the MGM Springfield casino. Since then the project has been delayed and now redesigned.
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Construction workers at the March 2015 ceremonial groundbreaking for the MGM Springfield casino. Since then the project has been delayed and now redesigned.
Construction workers at the March 2015 ceremonial groundbreaking for the MGM Springfield casino. Since then the project has been delayed and now redesigned.
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The former Zanetti School was the backdrop in March 2015 for the MGM Springfield casino groundbreaking. MGM announced it will begin to demolish the building on Tuesday, Jan 12

MGM has announced major demolition work will begin next week as it prepares the site in downtown Springfield where a $950 million resort casino is planned.

Almost a year after the former Zanetti school building served as the backdrop for the MGM Springfield groundbreaking, it will be demolished beginning Tuesday, according to a press release from MGM. 

The much anticipated major construction work follows state environmental and city zoning approvals. 

MGM Springfield President Mike Mathis said the casino remains on track to open in the fall of 2018.

"September 2018 is what we are holding to and we feel comfortable with that date," Mathis said last month.

MGM is going ahead with demolition work even thought city and state officials have yet to approve controversial changes the company has proposed in the project’s scope, including the elimination of a 25-story hotel.

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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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