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MGM To Update Springfield Casino Plans In November

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published October 14, 2015 at 5:10 PM EDT
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's latest Springfield casino design has a six-story 250 room hotel on Main St. Plans for a 25-story hotel have been dropped.

MGM executives plan to update city officials within 30 days on the Springfield casino project.

MGM said in a news release Wednesday there would be updates on historic preservation discussions, concepts for a new marquee, and developments in offsite housing. 

Last month, MGM shook up city officials with a new design that eliminated a 25-story hotel from the $800 million project. 

City Council President Mike Fenton said MGM has to sweeten the deal with the city, to get the council to OK the new plan.

"The city has to be given some other type of compensation to justify that kind of amendment," said Fenton.

MGM needs local and state approval for the updated design.

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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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