Slot Barn Proposed for Worcester

Slot Barns create few jobs as experience has proven. [Elsewhere, the low wage jobs created are 3 or 4 Slot Machines for each job, not considering shifts and weekends.]

The traffic is local, creating local Gambling Addicts, sucking discretionary income from the local economy.  

What reasonable community would welcome them?

Gam[bl]ing company makes bid for the slots

Two are in Mashpee's sector - would reduce payments to state by 2 percent.

If a slots compact is in Mashpee's sector it would reduce payments to the state by 2 percent

Article | March 25, 2013 - 2:00pm | By Matt Murphy, State House News Service

 

Rush Street Gaming Subsdiary plans Worcester slots facility

 

One of four developers seeking the lone slot parlor license from the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, Mass Gaming & Entertainment, LLC, a subsidiary of Rush Street Gaming, on Monday announced its selection of a 14-acre site on Madison Street in Worcester for its slots gaming facility.

The Chicago-based developer also has plans for a hotel in Worcester, and plans to announce additional details in the coming weeks, according to a press release. "We have a proven track record of entering emerging casino markets and identifying the right metropolitan area, which coupled with the right neighborhood, creates a successful entertainment destination. We are confident that our plan will create significant economic development for Worcester and we look forward to working closely with the city in bringing this project to reality," said Neil Bluhm, chairman of MGE.

The property, a vacant former Wyman-Gordon industrial complex, is currently owned by Precision Castparts Corporation of Portland, Ore. The land is under option to Carpenter Worcester Associates, a hotel developer based in Cambridge that plans to develop a full-service hotel with meeting rooms, a ballroom and modern technological amenities.

Mass Gaming & Entertainment is one of four developers seeking the slots-only license that the Gaming Commission hopes to award before the end of the year.

 

Two are in Mashpee's sector - Would reduce payments to state

The owners of Plainridge Racecourse and Raynham Park have both partnered with developers seeking the Category 2 gaming license, and a fourth developer PPE Casino Resorts has paid the application fee, but has yet to announce a sight for its proposed slot parlor.

Raynham are in Bristol County, part of the Southeast gaming region where the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe is pursuing federally protected land and one of the three licenses to build a resort-style casino.

Under a revised gaming compact recently agreed to by the tribe and the Patrick administration, the percentage of casino revenue the tribe would be required to share with the state in exchange for a casino license would decrease by 2 percent if a slot parlor opens in the same region.

The Legislature is currently reviewing the compact.

 

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