{"id":11980,"date":"2013-11-01T12:39:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T20:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=11980"},"modified":"2013-11-01T12:39:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T20:39:57","slug":"what-makes-a-surrounding-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/what-makes-a-surrounding-community\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a &#8216;surrounding community&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Google Maps<\/strong>, that&#8217;s what. The <strong>Massachusetts<\/strong> town of <strong>Bolton<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegram.com\/article\/20131101\/NEWS\/311019852\/1116\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">wants &#8220;surrounding community&#8221; consideration<\/a> from <strong>Leominster<\/strong>, where <strong>Cordish Gaming<\/strong> hopes to built a $203 million slot parlor. As with many towns across the state, Bolton&#8217;s concerns center upon traffic. Cordish maintains that most punters will arrive via <strong>I-190<\/strong>. However &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The slot parlor would sit near a popular <strong>Walmart<\/strong>, which draws most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mboltlg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11981\" alt=\"mboltlg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mboltlg-295x300.jpg\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mboltlg-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mboltlg-147x150.jpg 147w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mboltlg.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a>of its patronage from Route 117, which traverses Bolton. And if you plan your trip to the casino site via Google Maps, the travel planning software defaults to <strong>Route 117<\/strong>, not I-190.\u00a0Bolton wants more than the $5K in mitigation that Cordish is offering surrounding communities. But first it needs to be recognized by the <strong>Massachusetts Gaming Commission<\/strong> as a surrounding community. If it gets <!--more-->the designation but can&#8217;t reach accord with Cordish, the two parties go to arbitration. Opening a casino in Massachusetts, as you can see, requires not a little bit of statesmanship.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Gov-Hassan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10183\" alt=\"Gov Hassan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Gov-Hassan-227x300.jpg\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Gov-Hassan-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Gov-Hassan-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Gov-Hassan.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a>Concurrently<\/strong>, in <strong>New Hampshire<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concordmonitor.com\/news\/politics\/9131446-95\/panel-considers-combined-gambling-oversight\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">the framework of a gaming-oversight body is emerging<\/a> and it bears a strong resemblance to what <strong>Maryland<\/strong> and <strong>Kansas<\/strong> already have. The advisory\u00a0<strong>New Hampshire Gaming Regulatory Oversight Authority<\/strong> is taking an if-it-ain&#8217;t-broke-don&#8217;t-fix-it approach. It favors expanding the membership of the <strong>Lottery Commission<\/strong> and making both casino and charitable gambling answerable to the commission. The GROA isn&#8217;t taking any stance on how big a Granite State casino should be. However, state-retained <strong>White Sands Gaming<\/strong> has recommended that it be half the size of the 5,000-slot, 150-table casino that was proposed by Gov. <strong>Maggie Hassan<\/strong> (and defeated) last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps, that&#8217;s what. The Massachusetts town of Bolton wants &#8220;surrounding community&#8221; consideration from Leominster, where Cordish Gaming hopes to built a $203 million slot parlor. As with many towns across the state, Bolton&#8217;s concerns center upon traffic. Cordish maintains &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/what-makes-a-surrounding-community\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[70,112,163,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11982,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980\/revisions\/11982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}