Wynn's Boston-Area Casino Experiences SetbackCasino Won't Open Until 2018, At Earliest |
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Bureaucracy is holding up Wynn Resorts’ approved project in the town of Everett, just outside of the city of Boston, according to the Boston Globe.
The office of the state’s governor on Friday refused to issue a permit for the project because it thinks that Wynn was sold some land before the state’s environmental agency had finished its review of the planned casino complex. Wynn wants to transform a former Monsanto Chemical site into a world-class casino and will spend millions to clean it up.
The report indicated that the situation should be remedied and Wynn will eventually receive the permit. Though, this will delay the start of construction indefinitely.
The opening date has been pushed back to sometime in 2018—or later.
“We are disappointed that the new jobs and new tax revenues that would have helped so many people in the Commonwealth will be delayed,” Wynn Everett president Robert DeSalvio said in a statement, according to the report.
However, he added: “We’re gratified that after thousands of pages of analysis and years of review, the Secretary has generally endorsed all of our mitigation plans.”
Wynn will have to “update its plan for dealing with environmental issues such as traffic and noise created by the casino,” according to Governor Charlie Baker’s secretary of energy and environmental affairs, the Globe reported.
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