State faces risky bet for third casino license

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An architectural rendering showed a design for a resort casino that the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe hopes to build in Taunton.

State faces risky bet for third casino license
By Sean P. Murphy Globe Staff
March 11, 2016

The state’s first casino, a slot parlor in Plainville less than a half-hour away from a full-scale casino in Rhode Island, is off to a slow start. Another casino in Tiverton, R.I., just a few hundred yards from the Massachusetts border, is on the horizon.

In Massachusetts, two other proposed casinos, less than 20 miles apart in Brockton and Taunton, are vying for a stake in this crowded gambling landscape. And the choice between them, which the state Gaming Commission is expected to announce in April, is getting more difficult by the day.

The decision rests on a thorny issue the state has grappled with for years — how to handle the aspirations of the Mashpee Wampanoag, a Native American tribe that is seeking to build a $500 million casino in Taunton.

Last month, a group of Taunton landowners, backed by the Brockton developers, sued to block the casino, raising the prospect that the project could be held up for years. Developers who want to build a $677 million casino-and-hotel complex in Brockton have seized on the opportunity, saying their plan would bring a faster payoff of jobs and tax revenue.

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And we have Wynn pimping his Everett casino.