Boston Files Second Lawsuit Against Wynn's CasinoCity Wants To Invalidate Company's Environmental Permit |
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The city of Boston has filed a second lawsuit that is seeking to kill Steve Wynn’s plans for a $1.7 billion casino in nearby Everett.
The first lawsuit claims that state gaming regulators were unethical in the licensing process. The second, which was filed Monday, seeks to invalidate an environmental permit that Wynn Resorts received, according to The Boston Globe. The site of the proposed casino is a former Monsanto Chemical site.
Despite Wynn Resorts’ plans to clean up the chemical site, Boston alleges that “Wynn’s project will generate severe damage to the environment” and that it will cause “the residents of Charlestown and the Greater Boston area to suffer environmental impacts that will materially degrade their health, well-being, and quality of life.”
Boston has also alleged that the casino would greatly affect traffic.
Part of Wynn’s approval for the casino requires the company to work with state’s Department of Transportation on potential long-term traffic problems.
“Once again, the City of Boston has not allowed Wynn to see their complaint directly, but instead has used the media to deliver its inflammatory claims,” a spokesperson for Wynn said in a statement. “This is certainly an unproductive way for the city to engage in a dialogue with our company, and will be unlikely to benefit the citizens of Boston; yet it is likely to force the citizens to carry the burden of ever-increasing legal fees.”
Wynn and Boston’s mayor have been trading public barbs over the casino, with Wynn at one point calling Mayor Martin Walsh “obviously irresponsible.”
Despite the hassle, Wynn said “the chances of [the project being abandoned] are zero.”
After receiving the crucial environmental permit from the state in August, Wynn began some work on site just a couple of weeks ago.
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