Many U.S. states, if they have not precisely copied the Nevada model to a ‘t’, have had great success building and marketing land casinos that definitely emulate the United states gambling mecca. However for some reason, Massachusetts can’t quite get because of the gambling paradigm; maybe it’s the ghost of the Salem puritans, still lurking via regulators and commissioners, but in more modern garb.

Backing Out associated with the Game

What the Las Vegas casino industry initially bent over backwards to be a component of from Wynn Resorts to Caesars Entertainment to MGM Resorts International is seeing more attrition as industry moguls find the requirements and investigations of the Massachusetts regulatory powers to be bordering on ridiculous if not, in fact, having crossed the border right into absurd.

So now two years after the East Coast state launched its doors to eager proposals from all the big industry players just for three gambling enterprises, one each in specific regions of the state the tides are turning, and some of these players are thumbing their noses during the Mass. regulators, by having a possible bird that is quietly flipped the table.

Hey, they’re not playing with kids here.

The three areas that are distinct in the west, one into the southeast, and one in the Boston area are looking less desirable to operators who, while well utilized to regulatory procedures, are not about to have every crust of bread and cookie crumb they ever ate examined by this number of commissioners to this level of minutiae. And what started out as a licensing that is predictably slow, has emerged as one that seems, to more than one candidate, interminable, and perhaps not even worth the time, money and scrutiny involved.

Simply to catch you up, here’s where in fact the initial players stay now: Caesars Entertainment Corp., after being maligned for an relationship with a non-Massachusetts project alliance (Gansevoort Hotel Group) for that business’s third-party alleged connection with some Russian mob figures said ‘see ya’ to their previous $1 billion partnership with Suffolk Downs racetrack in Boston.

Steve Wynn all but destroyed it using the regulators a week before that when they made disparaging remarks about his Macau operations and insinuated crime that is chinese ties in that arena. Wynn basically told the commissioners to simply take their casino and shove it, and many think he may quickly cut his losses on the hundreds of millions he’s already poured into a proposed $1.3 billion project in Everett outside of Boston, and say ‘kiss my assets goodbye.’

Then There Was One

Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands Corporation must have anticipated the Macau scrutiny, simply because they never even bothered to apply for a license in Massachusetts. Therefore all that leaves is lone applicant MGM Resorts International, who continue to be vying to place their $800 million casino resort in Springfield, in the western element of the state; but city fathers seeing how the winds are blowing out of Las Vegas now are already nervously questioning who will need MGM’s spot if the state’s commissioners deem the casino operator to be not up to their rather-holy-for-the-gambling-industry standards.

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission that has been only tossed year that is together last even getting criticism from a seemingly unlikely source: the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Nevada’s Board Chairman A.G. Burnett noted recently that his colleagues back East were using investigators that are private conjure up ‘gotcha gaming regulation.’

‘We understand transactions and certification agreements,’ Burnett said. ‘We know how the (Caesars-Gansevoort) relationship worked. Regulators need to be both intelligent and reasonable.’

To date, at the least, MGM Resorts Chairman Jim Murren remains being polite in regards to the Mass. Commission, claiming he is sure his outfit shall be found suitable for the Springfield project. But offered the commission’s present background, it’s anyone guess if Murren’s passion shall hold up.

‘ We have complied with every thing they have asked of us,’ Murren stated. ‘Our reaction to the RFP will be about a thousand pages. At the end of day, once you have a look at all the facts, I see no reason why we won’t be found suitable.’

Of course, Caesars’ Gary Loveman and Wynn’s Wynn also saw no good reason they wouldn’t be found suitable, until recently. And also Murren admits, there have been some curve balls thrown in this move East.

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