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.
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I truly believe that a Casino(s)/Slots in Boston, will bring nothing but trouble. Not just the gambling, (though that is part of the problem),but the rise in Blue Collar/White Collar Crime, and the creation of wage slavery for the working class. Not to mention how our Glorious Commonwealth's and fair City of Boston's functionaries will squeeze this for every penny they can for their own gain. Again royally screwing the blue collar and microscopic middle class. And the Taxes.....fuggedaboudit. Landlords will raise Rents, and bussines owners will hike prices near Casinos to what the market will bear. Also, I PROMISE you, WE will wind up bailing the Casinos out. Remember Governor Patrick's dalliance with Wind Power?
Too late. That ship has sailed. The law was passed and whining about the potential pitfalls can only fall on deaf ears from this point on.
Bringing casinos to Mass. are a horrible idea to begin with. And the towns surrounding Milford are planning to fight any sort of casino there. Residents of Holliston, Hopkinton, etc. (and many in Milford itself) have zero interest in living next door to such a monstrosity, which will greatly damage the exurban/rural feel of the area and will bring only traffic and crime. So dream on Mr. Nunes.
But if they must go anywhere near Boston, then Suffolk Downs and Everett are much more appropriate locations.