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MGM Clears State Background Check In Bid To Build Springfield Casino

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published December 23, 2013 at 5:17 PM EST
An artist's rendering of MGM Resorts proposed casino in Springfield, MA
An artist's rendering of MGM Resorts proposed casino in Springfield, MA

           A major development today in efforts to build a resort casino in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts

An artist's rendering of MGM Resorts proposed casino in Springfield, MA
An artist's rendering of MGM Resorts proposed casino in Springfield, MA

   The Massachusetts Gaming Commssion, following a lengthy background investigation, and a public hearing earlier this month has determined that MGM Resorts is suitable to hold a casino license in Massachusetts. It clears the company to file a final application by the December 31st deadline for  an  $800 million casino project in Springfield.  The city’s chief development officer Kevin Kennedy said the casino could be licensed by May.

    " I had a brief conversation with the mayor earlier. He is very very pleased, as are all of us who have worked very hard on this. We have overcome another hurdle in the process."

   MGM is only the company competing for the lone casino license available in western Massachusetts.

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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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