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MGM Set To Buy Two Springfield Properties For Casino Project

An artist's rendering of the MGM Resort casino project proposed in downtown Springfield, MA.
MGM Springfield
An artist's rendering of the MGM Resort casino project proposed in downtown Springfield, MA.
An artist's rendering of the MGM Resort casino project proposed in downtown Springfield, MA.
Credit MGM Springfield
An artist's rendering of MGM's proposed casino in downtown Springfield,MA

MGM is preparing to purchase two city-owned buildings in Springfield for the Las Vegas-based company’s casino project.

Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno said MGM intends to close on the sale of the properties by the end of this month despite the statewide casino referendum in November that could kill the Springfield project.

" They have honored everything they have had to honor up to this point."

The city council will act Monday on Sarno’s recommendation to sell a former National Guard armory and a former school to MGM for $3.2 million. Both buildings were heavily damaged by the 2011 tornado. MGM was the high bidder for the properties.  The casino construction plans call for the façade of the armory to be preserved, and the school to be demolished.

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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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