Inside Gaming: Brockton Casino Plan Rejected, Nevada Down in March & NFL Franchise Eyes Vegas

In this week’s installment of Inside Gaming, a proposal to build a casino in Brockton, Massachusetts is shot down, one of the Macau gaming companies finally is able to report a revenue increase, Nevada endures a slight decline in March, and could the Oakland Raiders possibly be considering a move to Las Vegas?

Brockton Casino Proposal Denied by State Commission

A proposal from Mass Gaming & Entertainment to build a new $677 million casino in Brockton, Massachusetts was rejected by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission by a 4-to-1 vote on Thursday, ending a year-long campaign by the company.

According to The Boston Globe, it was the prospect of competition from a forthcoming Taunton casino that partly swayed the decision, as well as the Commission’s view of the proposal for the Brockton casino having been lacking in inspiration. Commission chairman Stephen Crosby, who had already voiced opposition to the plan earlier in the week, described the proposal put forth by Mass Gaming & Entertainment as “less than a knockout.”

“Crosby said he expected something bigger and bolder, something with a greater ‘wow factor’ comparable to the two casinos that have already won state approval: the $1 billion MGM Resort casino in Springfield and the $2 billion Wynn Resorts casino in Everett,” the Globe reports.

Both the MGM Springfield and the Wynn Boston Harbor currently have target opening dates of 2018.

Meanwhile construction of a $1 billion casino in Taunton (an artist’s rendering of which is shown above) already began earlier this month on reservation land owned by the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe. As a tribal casino, there’s no need to obtain state approval to move forward. However, there is a pending federal lawsuit to decide whether or not the land is to be designated with the needed reservation status.

For more on the Brockton casino denial and future of casinos in Massachusetts, check out the story in The Boston Globe.

Galaxy Entertainment Enjoys First Quarterly Increase in Nearly Two Years

The drumbeat of sour revenue-related news from Macau has been fairly uninterrupted for nearly two years as the Special Administrative Region as a whole continues to report decreases month after month. However some rare good news emerged this week when the Hong Kong-based Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd. reported its first …

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