Casino giant MGM Resorts International will disclose plans Wednesday for an $800 million gambling resort, entertainment complex, and housing development in downtown Springfield, an ambitious project that would rebuild areas of the city severely damaged by a 2011 tornado, according to a draft of a company statement on the project obtained by the Globe.
The MGM project would be the first casino proposal in Massachusetts in a distinctly downtown urban setting, and a unique project for a company best known for its prominent Las Vegas Strip properties, which include the upscale Bellagio and Mandalay Bay and the quirky theme hotels Luxor and New York-New York.
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Sounds pretty cool! It would put Springfield on the map for conventions and other development.
Keep the loser magnets near where the losers live:, Boston, Worcester, Springfield. In exchange, locate the societally positive job opportunities like high tech out where people want to raise families, buy homes, avoid drugs, crime, etc.