![]() It’s not all going to be our company – Wynn,” said Wynn CEO Matt Maddox in 2019. “We want to work with the city to create an entertainment district. In 2013, and later when the casino opened in 2019, Wynn officials talked about expanding across the street but never with gaming. ![]() The commissioners interpreted that language to mean voters were aware of and supported Wynn expanding beyond its original footprint and that the expansion would include gaming even though gaming was not mentioned. The reference to Horizon Way and the Monsanto Chemical Site clearly referred to the existing casino site (although a lawyer for Wynn suggested Monsanto or its predecessor companies owned the property across the street at one time), but another document that was mailed to voters at the time – the host community agreement between Everett and Wynn - said Wynn “would acquire land and options to acquire land in and around the area.” The ballot in 2013 was specific, asking whether Everett should “permit the operation of a gaming establishment licensed by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission to be located at the property located on Horizon Way (off ‘Lower Broadway’) in Everett, formerly known as the Monsanto Chemical Site?” The vote in 2013 was 5,320 in favor of the casino project to 833 opposed, a winning margin of 86.4 percent. The four commissioners who supported the expansion – chair Cathy Judd-Stein, Nakisha Skinner, Jordan Maynard, and Brad Hill – decided Everett voters didn’t have to be surveyed again on the issue of an expanded gambling footprint because the June 2013 vote was clear enough. The decision also raises the possibility of future gambling expansions at Encore and possibly the state’s other gambling facilities, although commissioners tried to tailor their decision as narrowly as possible to avoid that. ![]() The decision doesn’t mean the project has final approval, just that gambling can be part of the proposal. The new facility would be connected to the existing one by a footbridge across Broadway. The decision means Encore, which is owned by Wynn Resorts, can now move forward in the regulatory process with an east of Broadway proposal calling for a theater, a nightclub, a parking garage, and rooms for sports betting and poker. ![]()
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