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Mass. Gaming Commission Approves Mohegan Sun Waiver Request

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published December 19, 2013 at 4:38 PM EST
An artist's rendering of Mohegan Sun's proposed resort casino on Suffolk Downs race track property in Revere, MA
An artist's rendering of Mohegan Sun's proposed resort casino on Suffolk Downs race track property in Revere, MA

The Massachusetts  Gaming Commission has formally approved a waiver to allow Mohegan Sun to go forward with a casino project in eastern Massachusetts

An artist's rendering of Mohegan Sun's proposed resort casino on Suffolk Downs race track property in Revere, MA
An artist's rendering of Mohegan Sun's proposed resort casino on Suffolk Downs race track property in Revere, MA

The commission voted unanimously Thursday to waive a requirement that a binding voter referendum occur before the end of the year deadline for all casino license applications. Mohegan Sun wants to build a casino on land in Revere owned by Suffolk Downs race track.  An earlier casino proposal that would have been located in Revere and East Boston was turned down by East Boston voters.  Commission Chairman Stephen Crosby acknowledged the second vote that is being allowed in Revere is controversial.

"I just want to note that we are sensitive to the fact that there are competing interests  and competing passions on this."

Mohegan Sun partnered with Suffolk Downs after losing a voter referendum to build a casino in Palmer.

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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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