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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

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

   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.
New England News
Paul Tuthill
The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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