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Arbitrators To Decide Casino Mitigation Payments To Two Springfield Suburbs

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published April 7, 2014 at 4:54 PM EDT
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.

Arbitrators have been chosen to decide how much two Massachusetts communities will be paid by MGM to mitigate the impacts of the proposed casino in downtown Springfield.

An artist's rendering of the MGM Resort casino project proposed in downtown Springfield, MA.
Credit MGM Springfield
An artist's rendering shows MGM's proposed $800 million casino in downtown Springfield

MGM negotiated annual payments to six communities that surround Springfield, but was unable to come to agreements with Longmeadow and West Springfield by a deadline set last month by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission.  Both communities want compensation for the impact the casino is expected to have on traffic, public safety and other municipal services.  West Springfield Mayor Ed Sullivan said he’s comfortable with the arbitration process.

" We not out to hit the lottery, we are just looking to mitigate some of the impacts the casino will have on West Springfield."

Arbitration rulings on the surrounding community agreements is one of the final steps before the gaming commission issues the lone casino license for western Massachusetts.  MGM Springfield is the only applicant.

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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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