$960 million MGM Springfield<\/a> stays on schedule. The integrated casino resort is set to open in September, and will be the first property in the state to receive a Category 1 gambling license.<\/p>\nGross gaming revenue at MGM Springfield will be taxed at 25 percent. The second resort casino, the $2.4 billion Wynn Boston Harbor, is slated to open in 2019.<\/p>\n
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission can authorize a third and final Category 1 license in the southeastern counties of Bristol, Plymouth, Nantucket, Dukes or Barnstable.<\/p>\n
The Commission has delayed doing so as the state’s Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe continued its legal quest to build a $1 billion tribal casino resort in Taunton. However, it now appears that the Department of the Interior is not going to take the Native American group’s 150-acre plot of land, which it acquired in 2015, into federal trust. That’s essentially a death blow to the tribe’s casino aspirations, and might resume the commercial bidding process for the final casino resort license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Plainridge Park Casino, a slots and electronic tables facility, saw its gross gaming revenue jump 6.3 percent in 2017. The Massachusetts Gaming Commission (MGC) reported this week that the 1,250-machine slot parlor generated total revenue of $164.8 million over the last 12 months. That’s a $9.8 million premium on 2016. December’s take totaled $12.7 million, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":67574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,10,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Massachusetts Casino Plainridge Park Posts Six Percent Gain in 2017<\/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