Massachusetts: Casino expansion forces new look at 2013 Everett vote

Massachusetts: Casino expansion forces new look at 2013 Everett vote

Article brief provided by State House News Service
  • Colin A. Young, State House News Service
November 17, 2022 2:53 PM
  • Colin A. Young, State House News Service

As Encore Boston Harbor looks to expand its gambling offerings into a new development across the street from its existing casino, state regulators are revisiting the 2013 referendum through which Everett, Massachusetts voters backed the casino to try to suss out exactly what it was that city residents approved.

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Encore parent company Wynn Resorts wants to construct a new building across Broadway from its resort casino to host a dedicated poker room, second sports betting parlor, a new nightclub, a theater, parking garage and more. The Gaming Commission ruled in March that a previous draft of Wynn’s proposal — one that did not include any gaming areas — would not be part of the official gaming establishment and therefore would not fall under commission jurisdiction or oversight, an outcome the casino had lobbied for.