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Gaming Regulators To Hold Public Hearing On MGM Springfield Casino

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill

Published May 13, 2014 at 7:38 PM EDT

An artist's rendering of MGM Resorts proposed casino in Springfield, MA

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission is meeting in Springfield Wednesday to listen to public comments for the last time on MGM’s casino project.

An artist's rendering of MGM Resorts proposed casino in Springfield, MA

The commission continued a public hearing from April 1^st to give people a chance to comment on the recent arbitration awards to Longmeadow and West Springfield to help the surrounding communities mitigate the casino’s impacts on traffic and public safety. West Springfield Mayor Ed Sullivan believes his community, where voters rejected a casino proposed by Hard Rock, can benefit from the MGM casino in downtown Springfield.

" We are looking forward to working with them ( MGM) and other businesses that might come into the region as a result of the casino development."

MGM is the only applicant for the lone western Massachusetts casino license, which the gaming commission expects to award on June 13

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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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