Casino expansion could be hot topic

 

Casino expansion in Connecticut could occupy state lawmakers once again when the General Assembly convenes in February.

That prospect seemed likely Wednesday, after the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes announced they’d be interested in developing a Bridgeport casino, if the state were to authorize it. MGM Resorts International, the Las Vegas-based operator whose Springfield, Mass., casino poses a threat to the tribes’ southeastern Connecticut gaming palaces, set its sights on Bridgeport long ago.

Jim Murren, MGM’s chairman and chief executive officer, rekindled the casino-expansion debate Tuesday, telling a Bridgeport-area business group that MGM is intent on lobbying the state legislature next year.

“Without question, the issue of casino expansion, particularly in Bridgeport, will be on the front burner of my legislative agenda,” state Rep. Joe Verrengia, D-West Hartford, co-chairman of the committee that oversees gaming, said in a phone interview. “I think it’s great for the city of Bridgeport and for the state of Connecticut that we now have competing interests in building a casino in Bridgeport.”

Verrengia said it’s also likely that his Public Safety and Security Committee will need to deal with the legalization of sports betting, depending on how the U.S. Supreme Court rules in a case it heard this week.

“We write you today regarding the discussion over a possible casino in Bridgeport,” the tribal chairmen said Wednesday in a letter addressed to a half-dozen legislative leaders.

The Mashantucket and Mohegan tribes, respective owners of Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun, won legislative approval this summer for their plan to jointly develop a commercial casino on nontribal land in East Windsor. The project, still in the design stage, would offset the anticipated impact of MGM Springfield, the nearly $1 billion resort casino scheduled to open in September.카지노사이트핫

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