The Massachusetts Gaming Commission (MGC) has given Wynn Resorts its blessing to expand gaming operations off of Encore Boston Harbor property’s original property.
With casino sports betting now legal and operational in the commonwealth, Encore Boston Harbor wants to expand its resort footprint to the other side of Broadway. The casino, which is in Everett on what was formerly a chemical manufacturing plant, plans to build a standalone sportsbook and poker room inside a newly constructed facility.
The expansion will also relocate the casino’s “Memoire” nightclub. A pedestrian bridge across Broadway will connect the new gaming space to the existing resort.
State gaming regulators questioned whether Everett’s 2013 local referendum that authorized the casino allows for the resort to expand off of its original project site. Local voters a decade ago said they supported allowing Wynn Resorts to build an integrated casino “… on Horizon way off Lower Broadway in Everett, formerly known as the Monsanto Chemical Site.”
With casino sports betting now legal and operational in the commonwealth, Encore Boston Harbor wants to expand its resort footprint to the other side of Broadway. The casino, which is in Everett on what was formerly a chemical manufacturing plant, plans to build a standalone sportsbook and poker room inside a newly constructed facility.
The expansion will also relocate the casino’s “Memoire” nightclub. A pedestrian bridge across Broadway will connect the new gaming space to the existing resort.
State gaming regulators questioned whether Everett’s 2013 local referendum that authorized the casino allows for the resort to expand off of its original project site. Local voters a decade ago said they supported allowing Wynn Resorts to build an integrated casino “… on Horizon way off Lower Broadway in Everett, formerly known as the Monsanto Chemical Site.”