MASHANTUCKET, Conn. — Scott Butera views his training to build a casino in Massachusetts the same way Thomas Edison is said to have looked at his effort to invent the incandescent light bulb: He’s discovered a thousand ways not to do it.
“A lot of our business is trial and error,” said Butera, chief executive of Foxwoods Resort Casino, which this month joined Colorado developer David Nunes in his bid for the Greater Boston casino license, one of three the Massachusetts Gaming Commission could award as early as November.
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Well, there's one person not rooting for him. I'm not in favor of an outright ban on casinos, but they certainly are a blight on a community, and in this economy there aren't a lot of people with extra cash to flush away.
It's interesting that Wynn Resorts wants to build a casino in Everett which is called out in another article in today's Globe ("Who's Clogging the Road?") as one of just a frew neighborhoods throughout the state that already cause most of the traffic jams.
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Good grief, it's bad enough we cut down forest and rape land for interstate shopping malls, now we're going to do it for casinos.
What a waste.
Talk about a civilization adrift...
Casinos. What a sad way for a government to have to generate revenue What a sad way for people, rich and poor, to lose money. What a sad time for Massachusetts as it welcomes more crime, corruption and cronyism.
Nice PR piece passing itself off as news. The truth? Casinos are an ugly business, and have no place in Massachusetts, and especially not the quiet, suburban Milford area.
Did Butera's publicist write this pathetic fluff piece? The Globe never misses an opportunity to remind us why their days are numbered. The reality is that no one is going view Milford as a "destination resort" and stay a minute longer than they have to. The state would be negligent to go along with this.
Time for an update! The Foxwoods gang have thrown Nunes, the guy who brought them the deal, under the bus, and last night they got spanked by the Milford Board of Selectmen for waltzing in with a presentation utterly devoid of new content or detail. Butera himself came off as a decent and humble person, but the the fact that they haven't done squat on this proposal -- no answers to the questions that the town first presented to the partnership more than three years ago! If they started from scratch in February, they're still at scratch two months later. This thing is going to be a massive crapfest for the next few months until the Selectment or people of Milford finally spike it.