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Springfield City Officials Concerned About MGM Casino Design Changes

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published October 20, 2015 at 7:35 PM EDT
Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno held a news conference Tuesday to respond to reports MGM is downsizing the Springfield casino project. With Sarno are chief development officer Kevin Kennedy ( at left) and City Solicitor Ed Pikula.
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Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno held a news conference Tuesday to respond to reports MGM is downsizing the Springfield casino project. With Sarno are chief development officer Kevin Kennedy ( at left) and City Solicitor Ed Pikula.
Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno held a news conference Tuesday to respond to reports MGM is downsizing the Springfield casino project. With Sarno are chief development officer Kevin Kennedy ( at left) and City Solicitor Ed Pikula.
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Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno held a news conference Tuesday to respond to reports MGM is downsizing the Springfield casino project. With Sarno are chief development officer Kevin Kennedy ( at left) and City Solicitor Ed Pikula.

Springfield, Massachusetts city officials were blindsided by the proposed downsizing of the MGM casino project. 

Springfield city officials Tuesday said they are concerned about the potential impact on revenue and jobs from the 14 percent reduction in the scope of the casino project.  Most of the downsizing is planned on the retail and entertainment side, not the gambling floor. 

Mayor Domenic Sarno vowed to hold MGM to its promises to deliver thousands of jobs and $25 million annually to the city.

" Live up to their commitment," Sarno said about MGM. " Lets get this project moving."

The latest project design changes came about a month after MGM’s stunning decision to eliminate a 25-story hotel from the Springfield project.

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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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