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City Council To Vote On MGM Springfield Casino Plans

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published February 21, 2016 at 10:42 AM EST
An artist's rendering of the MGM Resort casino project proposed in downtown Springfield, MA.
MGM Springfield
An artist's rendering of the MGM Resort casino project proposed in downtown Springfield, MA.
An artist's rendering of the MGM Resort casino project proposed in downtown Springfield, MA.
Credit MGM Springfield

The city council in Springfield, Massachusetts is expected to vote Monday on the final design plans for the MGM casino.

The council has held five public hearings on the plans for the $950 million casino development. Councilors have voted to attach conditions to the project to address the concerns raised by some abutters about traffic, parking and pedestrian access.

The council Monday will weigh MGM’s controversial request to eliminate a 25-story hotel that had been part of the original design.

City Council President Mike Fenton said the lengthy review process, which began in mid-January is not interfering with MGM’s construction schedule.

" So long as these deliberations are concluded by March 1st, I've been given every assurance that there won't be any issues," said Fenton.

MGM continues to demolish buildings on the site to prepare for construction of the casino.

Copyright 2016 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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