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MGM Submits Final Massachusetts Casino Application

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

Casino developers in Massachusetts face a Tuesday deadline to submit final applications to state regulators

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

MGM Resorts filed a final license application Monday with the Massachusetts Gaming Commission.  The company said the more than 7,000-page application laid out in detail plans for an $800 million resort casino project in downtown Springfield.  The gaming commission is expected to make the application public in a few weeks. Public hearings on the project will be scheduled in Boston and Springfield.  The city’s chief development officer Kevin Kennedy said everything points to a final licensing decision by late May

"I think we are on the correct path, so I think we are going to be ok."

MGM is the only applicant for a casino license in western Massachusetts.  Wynn Resorts and Mohegan Sun are competing for the lone Greater Boston license.

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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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