\nThe Connecticut General Assembly and Governor Dannel Malloy (R) have endorsed the move in an effort to keep gaming dollars from flowing north to the $950 million resort.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
Mashantucket’s Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan’s Mohegan Sun are both located in the most eastern part of Connecticut. <\/span><\/p>\nMGM has led the fight to stop the East Windsor facility, suing the state on grounds that it didn’t have a competitive bidding process for the state’s third gaming location. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nConnecticut officials argued they didn’t have to, as the satellite is earmarked for tribes, not commercial operators. The US Bureau of Indian Affairs agreed, and the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed MGM’s lawsuit in June.<\/span><\/p>\nThe satellite casino is expected to cost $300 million. The tribes are aiming to open the venue sometime next year.<\/span><\/p>\nTribal Tribulations\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\nMassachusetts’ Expanded Gaming Act authorized the construction of up to three resort casinos, plus an additional slots-only facility. <\/span><\/p>\n\nPlainridge Park Casino, the slot venue operated by Penn National Gaming, opened in 2015. The $2.4 billion Wynn Boston Harbor is scheduled to open sometime in 2019.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nA third and final casino resort can only be approved in the southeastern part of the state. A decision on that license is being delayed by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission on concerns that the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe will someday win its legal fight to build a Native American casino in Taunton. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MGM Springfield is on pace to become the first integrated resort casino to open in Massachusetts. MGM Resorts, the Nevada-based gaming and hospitality conglomerate, confirmed this week that construction is on schedule at its $950 million property, and the venue is targeting an opening date in September of 2018. The bones of the complex have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":57564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,13,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
MGM Springfield on Schedule for September 2018 Opening<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n