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Decision Due On Casino Surrounding Community Petitions

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published February 17, 2014 at 10:11 AM EST
An artist's rendering of MGM Resorts proposed casino in Springfield, MA
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An artist's rendering of MGM Resorts proposed casino in Springfield, MA

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission will announce a decision Tuesday on the petitions from three municipalities seeking mitigation payments if an MGM casino is built in downtown Springfield.

An artist's rendering of MGM Resorts proposed casino in Springfield, MA
Credit MGM Springfield
An artist's rendering of MGM Resorts' proposed $800 million casino in downtown Springfield, MA

   The Springfield suburbs of Longmeadow and Hampden petitioned to be designated surrounding communities on the grounds the casino MGM hopes to build will cause traffic congestion   Northampton, which is 18 miles from Springfield, argues the casino will harm its restaurants, stores and entertainment venues. At a hearing last month, MGM urged regulators to reject the petitions. MGM Springfield President Mike Mathis claims Northampton will benefit from a casino in Springfield

   MGM’s traffic studies find the casino would have a minimal impact on Longmeadow and no impact on Hampden.

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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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