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MGM Doing Casino Construction Hiring Outreach

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published August 27, 2015 at 11:57 AM EDT
Hundreds attended a construction information meeting hosted by MGM Resorts,which plans to start building an $800 resort casino in downtown Springfield next year
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Hundreds attended a construction information meeting hosted by MGM Resorts,which plans to start building an $800 resort casino in downtown Springfield next year
Hundreds attended a construction information meeting hosted by MGM Resorts,which plans to start building an $800 resort casino in downtown Springfield next year
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Hundreds attended an information session hosted by MGM earlier this year on the construction of the resort casino planned in Springfield. Now MGM is holding private interviews with minority-owned and women-owned construction companies that may be interested in bidding for work on the project.

MGM is setting out to fill some of the 2,000 construction jobs that were promised to build the company’s $800 million Springfield casino.

MGM officials are scheduling two days of interviews, Thursday and Friday, with minority-owned and women-owned union construction companies interested in bidding for jobs on the project. 

The Las Vegas-based entertainment company  interviewed veteran-owned businesses in July at its Springfield construction office. 

MGM has agreed to affirmative action hiring goals for the construction jobs.  Massachusetts Gaming Commissioner Bruce Stebbins said MGM will be held to that agreement.

" There is ongoing monitoring to make sure they meet their goals and if they are not meeting their goals telling us why," Stebbins said.

The scheduled opening of the casino has been delayed a year to September 2018 because of the I-91 viaduct reconstruction.

Copyright 2015 WAMC Northeast Public Radio
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Paul Tuthill
Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.
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