Sports activities betting was not the one gambling-related matter left on the slicing room ground when the ultimate financial improvement invoice emerged from 5 months of negotiations early Wednesday morning. Negotiators additionally scrapped plans to have the Gaming Fee take a severe take a look at the circumstances across the one on line casino license left unissued.
The state’s 2011 expanded gaming regulation gave the Gaming Fee the facility to grant as much as three resort on line casino licenses. To date, two have been awarded — to MGM Springfield and Encore Boston Harbor in Everett. Area C — the fee’s title for Bristol, Plymouth, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket counties — has been an unsettled matter for the fee for years.
Ever for the reason that Gaming Fee rejected a industrial on line casino proposal in Brockton in 2016, questions have lingered over whether or not a developer would put up the minimal $500 million for a on line casino that will face competitors from the three gaming services already open right here and close by casinos in different states. Including to the complexity of the scenario is the chance that the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe may revive its plan for a $1 billion on line casino in Taunton no matter whether or not the Gaming Fee decides to reopen the method to license a 3rd resort on line casino in Massachusetts.
Rep. Carol Doherty, a Taunton Democrat, co-sponsored language that was included within the Home’s financial improvement invoice in July that will have required the Gaming Fee to provide “an analysis of financial circumstances inside area C and surrounding areas with respect to the area’s potential to maintain” a resort on line casino and an analysis of the probability {that a} resort on line casino applicant may submit an software that would offer worth to the area earlier than 2024.
The Gaming Fee has addressed Area C in matches and begins in recent times, however in early 2020 sought solutions to particular and business-related questions round a possible market evaluation of Area C by a proper request for info. The pandemic upended the fee’s plans to evaluation the suggestions it obtained, however the fee has mentioned it nonetheless intends to delve extra deeply into the matter.
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