The Massachusetts Gaming Commission discussed a handful of important issues at a meeting held at boston’s john b. hynes veterans memorial convention center thursday.

Their state gambling regulator offered the nod to MGM Resorts Overseas’s request to postpone the opening of its $800-million casino resort in Springfield to 2018 september. The cause of this is the reconstruction of this Interstate 91 viaduct, which is likely to be completed by August 2018.

Commissioners haven’t been specially interested in the wait while the state would be to lose about ten dollars million in taxation income for each and every month the casino will not run. However, they admitted that it wouldn’t be beneficial to the business, if MGM opens its resort at the same time when key I-91 lanes are closed down as this will influence site visitors’ first impressions in a negative method.

Another matter that was talked about during the Thursday conference ended up being Brockton and its own application for a $650-million casino resort in Southeastern Massachusetts, or Region C as it is officially known. In fact, the city has remained the contender that is sole a casino license in the region, after ny designer KG Urban dropped its bid for the gambling location in New Bedford.

The Brockton proposition is funded and backed by Mass Gaming and Entertainment, affiliate of Chicago-based gaming company Rush Street Gaming. Within their first stateme (more…)