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Construction is finally set to begin on Wynn Boston Harbor, a $2.1 billion casino resort that will sit along the Mystic River in the neighboring town of Everett.
After challenges from the city of Boston were settled earlier this year, Wynn Resorts still had to deal with opposition from the nearby city of Somerville, which was trying to block the casino from getting another necessary environmental permit.
According to The Boston Globe, the state Department of Environmental Protection on Friday gave the approval to Wynn Boston Harbor, which was the last remaining hurdle for the project that has been in the works for the past several years. The state legislature legalized Las Vegas-style casinos in 2011.
MGM Resorts International ended discussions with Wynn Resorts Ltd. About buying that company’s nearly finished casino outside Boston, saying it would focus on its existing Massachusetts property. The old horse track at the East Boston-Revere border has been sold for a massive redevelopment, while Nevada-based Wynn opened its Encore Boston Harbor casino and hotel in Everett last year after.
Somerville can file an appeal, but Wynn plans on beginning construction in the meantime. The casino is expected to open in early 2019.
- Welcome to Encore Boston Harbor Resort. Luxury hotel rooms & suites, fine dining, casino, event center, shopping.
- Boston Globe via Getty Images. The Encore Boston Harbor casino-resort opens at 10 a.m. Wynn Resorts notes that the average size of a New England hotel room is 250.
“We can now go full steam ahead with the Wynn casino project,” Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria told The Globe. “This change will hugely add to the quality of life for our residents, our neighbors, and the tourists that will soon be visiting our city.”
After the decision by the state agency, Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone said in a statement that he wasn’t trying to block the casino outright: “This particular appeal was never about stopping the casino but rather about exercising the city’s statutory rights of appeal to ensure our city’s environmental, health, and waterways concerns were addressed.’
The casino was originally scheduled to open in 2018, but the challenge from Somerville delayed the plans. Steve Wynn was never worried about Somerville, saying previously that “we don’t rate this as a terrible threat or a major obstacle.”
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Previously Wynn Everett, the casino operator announced the name change in March, as well as upping the investment from $1.7 billion to $2.1 billion.
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BOSTON — Suffolk Downs is betting it can hit the jackpot with a $1 billion lawsuit against casino mogul Steve Wynn and Wynn Resorts.
The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court Monday under the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) by Sterling Suffolk Racecourse LLC, alleges Wynn Resorts lied in their application to the Massachusetts Gaming Commission and concealed Wynn’s sexual misconduct to illegally secure a license for the Everett casino scheduled to open next summer.
Suffolk Downs, which also competed for the single casino license in Boston, said the Revere and East Boston racetrack would have prevailed over Wynn Resorts had there been an “honest competition.”
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Instead, the lawsuit alleges, Wynn was granted a license to operate a casino on a toxic site loaded with levels of arsenic still so high, despite remediation, that a daycare center is not permitted on the grounds.
The suit claims Wynn purchased the parcel “from associates of La Cosa Nostra” and a friend of and former business partner of the chairman of the commission, Stephen Crosby.
The lawsuit also alleges Wynn submitted false statements to the Gaming Commission about the true ownership of the Everett site; threatened and committed extortion to suppress voter turnout in favor of Suffolk Downs as the preferred site; and made illegal campaign contributions in violation of the Gaming Act.
In addition, the suit said recent public disclosures have revealed how unfit the Wynn team is when Wynn and several of his associates were forced to resign or were fired when “Steve Wynn’s long and sordid history of inappropriate sexual conduct was finally disclosed, together with their pattern of concealment through lies, omissions and payoffs.”
While the lawsuit does not ask for specific monetary damages, Suffolk Downs estimates it to be more than $1 billion.
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Wynn resigned as chairman and chief executive of Wynn Resorts in February, and the company renamed its casino Encore Boston Harbor after sexual misconduct allegations surfaced against him. Wynn denies the allegations.
Wynn Resorts dismissed the suit in a statement Tuesday. They said the claims are frivolous and they will mount a vigorous defense.
In January, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission launched a review of Wynn Resorts’ suitability to hold its casino license following the sexual misconduct allegations against Steve Wynn. The probe is expected to be completed shortly.
In May, the commission agreed to a request that Wynn’s name be removed from the license in Massachusetts. Wynn’s lawyer argued his client no longer had a financial interest in or a business relationship with his former company following his resignation.
But the panel said it would continue investigating Wynn Resorts and its handling of the sexual misconduct allegations.
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Material from theAssociated Press was used in this report.
