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Place your bets: East Boston vs. Milford

By adamg on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 7:27am

The Herald reports the mayor continues to back plans for a resort casino at Suffolk Downs, but that he'll have to fight off Milford, which is also expected to put in a bid for a gambling emporium.

Ed. question: The Herald actually says the racetrack's owners want to build a "resort-style casino." How is that different from a plain old "resort casino?"

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By Legalcookie on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 7:39am.

Though I don't think this is what they mean, I'd say a resort-style casino is a casino like you'd find at a resort, but with no resort built in. Which kind of describes East Boston, if you think about it...

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By FlyingToaster on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 8:21am.

... you can take public transportation to it.

Have they started lobbying to close the T stop yet?

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By Kaz on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 8:54am.

A "resort-style" casino = more than just a slots parlor (table games, maybe an amphitheater) but without the hotel that makes it an actual resort/destination.

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By Jeff F on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 12:49pm.

Both just mean casinos with hotels, restaraunts, theaters,etc.

maybe someone's pumping up their word count ;)

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By John-W on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:16am.

I think it hinges on where you house the hookers.

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By issacg on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 1:03pm.

The interesting thing about this debate is how it might affect pro-gambling Bob DeLeo's home base of Winthrop if a slot parlor or larger casino goes into East Boston or Revere.

As Winthrop is by some margin the nicest of the communities immediately adjoining the areas where the slots might go in, and I would think that any increase in crime/vice, etc. associated therewith might be noticed most in Winthrop.

Given DeLeo's overwhelming support for gambling, some (not necessarily I) might call that justice.

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By NotWhitey on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 1:30pm.

What increase in crime/vice are you expecting - 70 year old women selling themselves on the streets after losing their milk money in the slots? Or are you going to dig up Lucky Luciano and prop him up at the entrance to the casino with a machine gun?

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By issacg on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 2:11pm.

It seems to me to have been taken as a given, by both sides of this debate, there is some uptick in crime/vice that comes with the introduction of a casino. Therefore, I did not bother to challenge what you imply is merely an assertion.

Maybe I should have made the challenge, but frankly, I was only interested in the much narrower issue of how this might bite DeLeo in the ass (not necessarily limited to any uptick in crime/vice, either - for example, what if these things someday need a taxpayer bailout because there really are too few gamblers to support all of these casinos in southern New England?) when everyone assumes that this is going to be a huge coup for him.

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By Wayne Newton on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 2:49pm.

Put in the Innovation/Seaport area, we know that is really where they would like to put it.

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By davem on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 7:14pm.

Mostly because of transportation and control of what's developed around it. My full arguement and more good discussion over on the archboston forums:

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