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Opponents of a proposed Brockton casino are taking their message on the road.
Stand UP for Brockton, a coalition of faith-based and community activists, has begun contacting religious and advocacy counterparts in towns in the Brockton area to share information about the harmful effects of casinos, according to a statement the group issued this week.
“Gambling addictions, mounting debt, foreclosures, family break-ups and increases in white collar crimes such as embezzlement are just a few of the damaging outcomes of a casino moving in just down the road from these local towns,” said Rev. Jill Wiley, community minister at Messiah Baptist Church in Brockton.
DOUBLE SIGH
“As we discovered in Brockton, people may not pay attention to the casino issue closely until it affects them directly,” Wiley said. “But when they learn about the harmful effects, they rise up as half of the voters did on May 12 and oppose anything like that coming near their community.”
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Developers behind the New Bedford casino proposal again received more time Thursday to close a financial deal, as state gaming officials set a “guillotine” June 9 deadline that kept the $650 million project alive for at least two more weeks.
And once again, as it has been for the past several months, it was a very close shave, like blackjack players staying at the table by winning on their last chips.
“We would be well within our rights to say that we didn’t get what we were looking for,” Stephen Crosby, chairman of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, told a leading partner in the New Bedford casino bid, suggesting that the commission could have rejected the entire application today.
“(But) I happen to not think that would be appropriate,” Crosby added.
Andrew Stern, operating partner for New York-based developer KG Urban Enterprises, acknowledged to commissioners in Boston that KG Urban has not yet finalized its deal with its key investor, Pennsylvania-based Gaming and Leisure Properties Inc. (GLPI).
“We do not have a signed term sheet,” Stern said.
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Capt wrote: I was just curious, because when was the last time the land was tested after all these years and that's a lot of years.
Has there ever been a manufacturing industry on the Fair grounds? If not, then there is no reason to test. But I'm sure it will be perked because that is step one in any construction site.
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One South End resident at a Thursday night casino forum wasn’t seeing a sparkling development that could reshape the city’s waterfront — he was seeing a massive draw that could create gridlock on the area’s primary conduit to other parts of the city.
“The people of this peninsula aren’t going to want to spend another 20 minutes getting to the North End,” neighborhood resident Tom Kennedy said at Roosevelt Middle School, where a smaller-than-expected crowd of about 30 people spoke with casino partners about the $650 million proposal. NA citywide vote is scheduled for June 23 on the casino, hotel and conference center project known as Cannon Street Station and proposed by New York-based developer KG Urban Enterprises.
The development is slated for the 43-acre site of an abandoned NStar power plant on the waterfront, off MacArthur Drive and Route 18. KG Urban operating partner Andrew Stern responded to traffic concerns by saying “There is no morning rush hour at a casino,” and that related traffic, from employees and patrons, would be spread out at the around-the-clock development.
Derek Santos, executive director of the New Bedford Economic Development Council, said Route 18 upgrades were designed to handle additional capacity, with two lanes in each direction. ”There was always an understanding that something would happen at the NStar site,” Santos said.
Stern said that process also could address finer points of the site’s layout. While the locations of a hotel on the site’s north side, a waterfront casino and the EXISTING POWER PLANT BUILDING are “set in stone,” he said, other aspects of the project could be adjusted down the road.
The idea of options didn’t sit well with all attendees. "It makes me a little bit nervous when you present several different layout plans — it’s like we have to decide on something, but we have no idea what it’s going to look like in the end,” John McCoy said. “Right now, it looks like it could be anything.”
Public forums on KG Urban’s casino proposal also are scheduled for 6 p.m. June 10 at the Zeiterion Performing Arts Center downtown, and 6 to 8 p.m. June 17 at Normandin Middle School in the North End.
Kennedy said he wished Thursday’s event had not been New Bedford’s first public forum on the casino proposal.
“I should have been able to ask these questions two years ago, to make my vote comfortable,” he said.
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The developer behind the New Bedford casino proposal said it has submitted financial terms to state gaming officials, hours ahead of a 5 p.m. deadline today, seemingly clearing the way for a citywide vote on the $650 million proposal June 23.
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Note: Crosby has been the lead supporter for the repeated NB Casino Financing Extensions FWIW
The State Ethics Commission is investigating gambling commissioner Stephen Crosby for a possible conflict of interest in his review of a proposed resort casino on land owned by a longtime friend.
The commission decided to launch a preliminary inquiry after receiving a sworn statement alleging that Crosby, the chairman, “actively participated” in the gambling commission’s work on the Eastern Massachusetts casino license after he officially recused himself from the proceedings. The land, which belonged to Crosby’s friend Paul Lohnes, is the site of Steve Wynn’s planned $1.75 billion resort casino.
Crosby confirmed the ethics investigation, which is secret, but denied any wrongdoing on his part.
“I have rigorously adhered to all regulations and guidance provided to me by the State Ethics Commission over the last three years,” said Crosby in a statement. “I am fully cooperating with what I understand to be a preliminary inquiry and I look forward to an expedient resolution of that inquiry.” He declined further comment, citing the confidentiality of the Ethics Commission’s proceedings.
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When New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell went before the Massachusetts Gaming Commission on March 19 to ask for more time for a developer interested in locating a casino in his city, Chairman Stephen Crosby said he enjoyed “working with the mayor” and knew him “socially.”
Neither man elaborated, but Crosby vowed it would not affect his vote. Mitchell and KG Urban Enterprises, the developer, walked away from that meeting with one of several deadline extensions.
On Wednesday, amid an ethics investigation into Crosby’s ties to a partner in land purchased by casino mogul Steve Wynn for an Everett casino, the Cape Cod Times asked both Crosby and Mitchell about Crosby’s comments.
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Thank you Deval, and I'm so happy he is being investigated for possible theft of $$ for his personal travel. Finally, I'm so happy to see our State delegation DO NOTHING to stop it...Kennedy, Brady, Cronin, DuBois and let's not give Canavan a free pass!
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My thought is...
The gaming commission had better not mess with George Carney. He knows what he's doing, and I would imagine he is not a man to be trifled with.
That's my humble opinion.
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The New Bedford proposal is more lucrative money wise, job wise (1500 vs 3000+ ) and it actually integrates the casino into the waterfront and a portion of downtown.
The Brockton Proposal has no inflation clause and is in no way integrated into anything but the fairgrounds. To compete with New Bedford, Brockron would need to add the inflation clause to make the money somewhat equitable and add something to make the project appealing.
Imagine a renovated statehouse building with 100 years of fair photos throughout the interior. Connected to this would be a Brockton history musuem focusing on The shoe industry,boxing, and Edison. That could compete with New Bedford and prove to be a draw far beyond the gambling crowd.
It seems like if you wave a few bucks in front of anybody in this city, they run for their pens and ask where to sign with no thought whatsoever, about how a Ho HUM proposal can be made Outstanding.
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