{"id":7151,"date":"2014-03-28T15:26:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T15:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/03\/28\/foxwoods-750-millionfall-river-project-could-get-june-vote\/"},"modified":"2014-03-28T15:26:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T15:26:58","slug":"foxwoods-750-millionfall-river-project-could-get-june-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/03\/28\/foxwoods-750-millionfall-river-project-could-get-june-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Foxwoods\u2019 $750 MillionFall River project could get June vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nBy Brian Hallenbeck Original story in <em>The Day Connecticut <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\tProposed Massachusetts. casino requires referendum<br \/>\n\tA Foxwoods partnership\u2019s plan to put a $750 million resort casino in southeastern Massachusetts could come before voters in Fall River in early June, a city official said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\tUnveiled at the end of January, the project has the backing of the city\u2019s administration, including Mayor Will Flanagan and Kenneth Fiola Jr., vice president of the Fall River Office of Economic Development.<\/p>\n<p>\t\u201cIt\u2019s shaping up very favorably,\u201d Fiola said of the Foxwoods plan.<\/p>\n<p>\tIn the last two weeks, the Foxwoods partnership, headed by Scott Butera, Foxwoods Resort Casino\u2019s president and chief executive officer, has secured options on a 30-acre site for the project and presented the plan at a public hearing.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe mayor hopes to present a signed \u201chost community agreement\u201d to the City Council on April 8, Fiola said.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe council could then set a referendum for early June.<\/p>\n<p>\tIf voters approve the deal, Foxwoods will submit a final, detailed application to the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. The deadline for final applications is July 23, which Fiola said Foxwoods is prepared to meet.<\/p>\n<p>\tAnother applicant, KG Urban Enterprises of New York City, which has proposed a southeastern Massachusetts project in New Bedford, wants the deadline extended to Oct. 23. The Fall River City Council voted 8-1 this week against the extension.<\/p>\n<p>\tFiola said he believes most of the city\u2019s residents support the Foxwoods project and that the host community agreement will answer any lingering questions about the benefits of the project. Those benefits, he said, include the creation of temporary and permanent jobs and up-front and continuing payments to the city to help offset the casino\u2019s impact on municipal services and fund related infrastructure improvements.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe proposed casino site, off Route 24, is home to the mostly vacant New Harbour Mall and an adjacent parcel occupied by two other retail outlets. The existing structures would be razed to make way for the casino project, which calls for 3,000 slot machines and 90 table games, a 300-room hotel, an entertainment venue, retail space and more than 10 bars and restaurants.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brian Hallenbeck Original story in The Day Connecticut Proposed Massachusetts. casino requires referendum A Foxwoods partnership\u2019s plan to put a $750 million resort casino in southeastern Massachusetts could come before voters in Fall River in early June, a city&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}