Providing a bit of a surprise to those following the casino discussion, Las Vegas gaming magnate Steve Wynn put in a Phase I application and paid a $400,000 licensing fee to begin the quest for a Greater Boston (Region A) casino license – a quest that will put him in direct competition with early favorite Suffolk Downs, who also turned in paperwork on Monday. Suffolk paid its $400,000 license fee last August. Now, the coming and going of the initial filing deadline for the first-ever casino gaming license has resulted in what appears to be two of the biggest international faces in expanded gaming Continue reading >>>

The announcement that international casino mogul Steve Wynn has put up the $400,000 application fee to the state to be considered for the license for a casino in the Greater Boston area certainly comes as exciting news for every resident in the City of Everett. Indeed, we daresay that Wynn’s proposed $1 billion casino on the site of the former Monsanto plant along the Mystic River is the biggest thing to hit this city in its long history (although the success of our High School Super Bowl football teams rates a close second). We certainly understand that there may be some objections to locating Continue reading >>>

Minutes before Tuesday’s application deadline, a third developer joined the competition for the Greater Boston casino license, bringing the tally of contestants to 11 in the multimillion-dollar competition for gambling rights across Massachusetts. David Nunes, who has long marketed his Milford site for a casino, filed an application and the $400,000 fee just 10 minutes before 5 p.m. That was the deadline for entering the sweepstakes for casino licenses in Eastern and Western Massachusetts, as well as the single slots parlor license controlled by the state gambling commission. Nunes’s project Continue reading >>>

 

By Mike Stoller So far it’s been a graceful two steps forward and none back for the Somerville High hockey team. The Highlanders improved their Greater Boston League record to 2-0, defeating archrival host Cambridge Rindge and Latin, 5-2, last week. Somerville also upped its overall record to 4-2-2. The bottom line: “We have 10 points and need 10 more to qualify for the [state] tournament,” Highlanders’ head coach Chuck Allen said. Surely, Allen was glad to see his squad win the much hyped rivalry game, but he wasn’t so thrilled with how the whole game went. “We have to get Continue reading >>>

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nicholas C. Cramb, Patricia A. Moran and Garrett M. Winslow of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. have been named to the 2013 Boston’s Future Leaders class by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. The year-long program aims to “identify the leaders of tomorrow and engage them in the business and civic life of our community by providing a platform for professional development and significant opportunities for growth and exposure.” “identify the leaders of tomorrow and Continue reading >>>

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 Continue reading >>>

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 Continue reading >>>

BOSTON (WWLP) - The deadline has come: all companies that hope to develop a casino in western Massachusetts, central Massachusetts, or the Greater Boston area had to submit their final applications as of 5:00 P.M. The deadline also marks the last opportunity for submitting the fee and application for the state’s only slots parlor. A total of 11 companies submitted their applications and the required $400,000 non-refundable deposit. Getting their applications and non-refundable $400,000 deposits in on time were: WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS Mohegan Sun MGM Springfield Penn-National Gaming, Inc. Hard Continue reading >>>

“Why Singapore?” some of our mystified friends and colleagues asked when my wife, Susan, and I announced, more than five years ago, that we were leaving our home in West Medford and our jobs in Greater Boston for a two-year stint in Singapore, a remote and tiny country somewhere in far-away Southeast Asia. “And where exactly is Singapore, anyway?” some puzzled folks asked. “Is it part of China, or what?” Now everyone knows that Americans have never been very good at geography. Singapore, long a British colony, and for a brief period part of Malaysia, has been an independent republic Continue reading >>>