A well-connected developer who controls a site in Milford got in
under the wire with a last-minute application for the Greater
Boston casino license, becoming the 11th and final contestant to
join the multi-million-dollar competition for gambling rights in
Massachusetts.
David Nunes, who has long been marketing his site for a casino,
filed an application and the $400,000 fee minutes before today’s 5
p.m. deadline for developers to enter the contest for the eastern
and western Massachusetts casinos licenses, as well as the one slot
parlor license.
That means at least three competitors will vie for what is
expected to be the most lucrative casino license in the state.
Nunes will compete directly with Suffolk Downs and its partner
Caesars Entertainment as well as Las Vegas casino magnate Steve
Wynn, who has proposed a resort on industrial land on Mystic River
in Everett.