… is Steve Wynn‘s treasure. Reader thsully1 has supplied us with these photos of Wynn’s casino site in Everett. Mentally superimpose Wynn Las Vegas and decide if you’d like to go there or not. “The site is sandwiched in between a shopping center, crappy low-rise strip centers and T railroad tracks,” Sully reports.
* KG Urban Enterprises is cozying up to Foxwoods Resort Casino — along with two as-yet-unnamed operators — to strengthen its bid for a casino site in New Bedford. Also back in the picture is Rush Street Gaming, in drag as Mass Gaming Entertainment (a clumsy attempt to mask its Illinois origins), which has its eyes on Brockton Fairgrounds. Although KG Urban and other supplicants have until March 16 to get their act together, the extension period gives Rush Street the heebie-jeebies. “We’ve got it. We’re here. We’re ready to go. Any delay is fraught with danger and uncertainty,” fretted lawyer John Donnelly.
Meanwhile, another heavy player is in the mix. Don Marrandino is trying to merge Somerset on the Move with Crossroads Massachusetts (Foxwoods’ rejected partner in Milford), reasoning that they stand a better chance together. In the meantime, scratch Seafan Trust, which was a day late and $400,000 short on its application fee. This is the big leagues, guys. Only serious bidders need apply.
* With 1,200 hotel rooms and an insufficiency of revenue, Mohegan Sun would seem well advised to stand pat. However, the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority is floating the sale of $102 million in bonds to finance a second, 400-room hotel tower. Mohegan officials say the existing hotel is full up and they need the extra space. It’s not a downsized version of recession-scrapped Project Sunburst, just an adjunct to the main hotel.
* There’s no gambler as coveted as the Chinese player — and that’s got Peking a little hot under the collar. “A fair number of neighbouring countries have casinos, and they have set 
up offices in China to attract and drum up interest from Chinese citizens to go abroad and gamble. This will … be an area that we will crack down on,” scowled Ministry of Public Security Deputy Bureau Chief Hua Jingfeng. Among the countries’ whose marketing efforts are frowned upon are Australia, the Philippines and South Korea. All of them have been pretty aggressive in their attempts to get Chinese punters to leapfrog Macao and play overseas.
Hua’s remarks were also seen as pertaining to Macanese operators, particularly Sands China, MGM Grand Paradise, Melco Crown Entertainment and Wynn Macau. (Stanley Ho and Galaxy Entertainment have a negligible extra-Chinese presence.) Those companies haven’t been so careless as to advertise on Chinese soil but expect the government to keep them on a tighter leash.
