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City Council Studies Plans For MGM Springfield Casino

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published January 25, 2016 at 6:18 PM EST
MGM's new design for the Springfield casino, depicted in this artist's drawing, omits a 25-story hotel that was a centerpiece of the project since 2013.
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MGM's new design for the Springfield casino, depicted in this artist's drawing, omits a 25-story hotel that was a centerpiece of the project since 2013.
MGM's new design for the Springfield casino, depicted in this artist's drawing, omits a 25-story hotel that was a centerpiece of the project since 2013.
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The Springfield City Council is conducting a final review of the plans for the $950 million MGM casino.

The council is tentatively scheduled to vote Tuesday after holding a fourth public hearing on the casino project site plan. However, Council President Mike Fenton said he’ll set additional time for deliberations if necessary.

"It is possible to extend  ( the hearings) should we need further public input or councilors have additional questions," he said.

Fenton said the council won’t be rushed in making a decision. The council president has been critical of MGM’s controversial proposal to eliminate a 25-story hotel from the project.

  Earlier this month, MGM began demolishing buildings to clear the way for the construction of the casino, which it plans to open in September 2018.

Copyright 2016 WAMC Northeast Public Radio
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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