Gaming panel also raises concerns about Wynn tower The Massachusetts Gaming Commission, which began comparing the two companies vying for a Greater Boston casino license on Monday, raised concerns about the design of the proposed Wynn Resorts hotel tower in Everett and voiced strong reservations about the marketing and financing of the Mohegan Sun proposal for Revere. The reservations about the Mohegan Sun proposal seemed serious. Commissioner Enrique Zuniga, who was charged with leading a team looking at the finances of the two casino developers, said Mohegan Sun had failed to realize the Continue reading >>>

The first of at least a week’s worth of Massachusetts Gaming Commission meetings was held Monday, kicking off discussions that will lead to a decision about where a Boston-area casino should be built. The board will meet every day this week, and could rule by Friday on whether to award a casino license to Mohegan Sun or Wynn Resorts, which are respectively bidding to build in Revere and Everett. Meetings are also scheduled, if necessary, into early next week. Individual board members have been tasked with giving a comprehensive look at the aspects of each proposal and presenting them to the Continue reading >>>

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission Monday began a final review of the two competing proposals for a resort casino in greater Boston.    The proposed design of Mohegan Sun’s $1.1 billion dollar casino in Revere received a more positive evaluation than did Wynn Resorts’ proposed design for a casino in Everett.  But Wynn’s $1.6 billion dollar project was found to be more  financially sound. Both projects will be judged in several categories before the commissioners begin their final deliberations and possibly vote by weeks end to award a license. Commissioner Continue reading >>>

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The Massachusetts Gaming Commission has a lot to consider when it begins hearings Monday on the two competing proposals for the sole Greater Boston casino license. At first glance, the two look very similar. Both promise about 4,000 jobs, 500 hotel rooms and about $1 billion in casino revenue. But as you dig into the plans, you start to see distinct selling points for each proposal, and how the developers, Mohegan Sun and Wynn Resorts, are making their case. Mohegan Sun Seeks To Fit Into Community The Mohegan Sun proposal in Revere would be next to Suffolk Downs, the 79-year-old thoroughbred racetrack Continue reading >>>

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission faces an unusual level of public scrutiny as it decides whether, and to whom, to award the potentially lucrative Greater Boston casino license this week. Voters are watching, and in less than two months they’ll decide in a statewide referendum whether to undo the commission’s handiwork by repealing the 2011 casino law. The commission also faces pressure to award the license to a plan at Suffolk Downs, the struggling East Boston racetrack that lobbied heavily to legalize casino gambling in Massachusetts. But the public has repeatedly been told that the law’s Continue reading >>>

Over the next five days, the state’s top gambling regulators will tackle their most important assignment: weigh the merits of competing casino plans for Greater Boston, and pick a winner for the state’s most lucrative gambling license. If the decision tilts on financial issues, the smart bet is Wynn Resorts Ltd., proposing a five-star slice of Las Vegas on the Mystic River waterfront in Everett. The prosperous international gambling company stands on firmer financial ground, and would spend substantially more on the bricks and mortar of its development, according to a Globe analysis. Continue Continue reading >>>

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It could take as many as eight more business days for the Massachusetts Gaming Commission to award a casino license for the Greater Boston area, considered the last major untapped gaming market in the Northeast.At the end of the process, which could now extend as late as Sept. 17, the commission is expected to bestow the license on either Mohegan Sun, which has proposed a $1.3 billion project in Revere, or Wynn Resorts, for a $1.6 billion project in Everett.The commission plans to deliberate Monday through Friday next week and the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, if necessary. Continue reading >>>