Steve Wynn swears: His first reaction upon winning the Greater Boston casino license was a pang of sympathy for the company he had beaten, Mohegan Sun.

“We’re going to take their best customers,” said Wynn, the billionaire developer and chairman of Wynn Resorts, which last Tuesday won the state’s most coveted casino license over an entry from the Connecticut casino company. “It was a tough day for them; they needed this deal very badly.”

Wynn is already turning his attention to luring those customers, by preparing for construction of his $1.6 billion gambling resort in Everett. He stopped in Boston on Friday to look for office space for a development headquarters, and to share with state regulators renderings of new hotel designs.

“It’s a sexy high-rise,” Wynn promised with a wide grin, during a Globe interview Friday at Bricco restaurant in the North End, his first extended comments since winning the state’s most lucrative gambling license. The restaurant was closed to the public, but not to Steve Wynn.

It seemed like a different Wynn than the brash CEO who quarreled in public with Massachusetts regulators last year, and skewered his opponent’s project with biting criticism before the state gambling commission.

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