{"id":12304,"date":"2013-12-20T09:48:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T17:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=12304"},"modified":"2013-12-20T10:29:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T18:29:56","slug":"and-its-mgm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/and-its-mgm\/","title":{"rendered":"And it&#8217;s &#8230; MGM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MGM-MD-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11617\" alt=\"MGM MD 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MGM-MD-2-300x138.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MGM-MD-2-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MGM-MD-2-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MGM-MD-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This news is so hot off the wires <strong>Howard Stutz<\/strong> has only had time to tweet it but <strong>Prince George&#8217;s County<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/mgm-gets-the-nod-to-build-marylands-sixth-casino-at-national-harbor-in-prince-georges\/2013\/12\/20\/059e7276-693e-11e3-a0b9-249bbb34602c_story.html\" class=\"broken_link\">has chosen<\/a> <strong>MGM Resorts International<\/strong> for its new casino license. Pleas by <strong>Greenwood Racing<\/strong> for an extension had been brushed off. If the $952 million MGM property is half as impressive in the flesh as it is in renderings, it should be something. Prince George&#8217;s County allied itself with the cream of the industry in its choice. <strong>Penn National Gaming<\/strong>, meanwhile, has to figure out what it&#8217;s going to do with <strong>Rosecroft Raceway<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cdcgamingreports.com\/maryland-commission-picks-mgm-resorts-international-bid-for-new-prince-georges-co-casino-ap\/#.UrSMXPTOkWJ\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">an infelicitous acquisition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in <strong>Massachusetts<\/strong>, MGM <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2013\/12\/mgm_suitability_decision_by_massachusetts_gaming_commission_to.html#incart_river\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">is inching toward a finding of suitability<\/a>, the first big step toward licensure. Difficulty in obtaining surrounding-community agreements may require binding arbitration and push the final selection back into March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This news is so hot off the wires Howard Stutz has only had time to tweet it but Prince George&#8217;s County has chosen MGM Resorts International for its new casino license. Pleas by Greenwood Racing for an extension had been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/and-its-mgm\/\">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":[28,172,72,112,11,69,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12304"}],"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=12304"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12310,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12304\/revisions\/12310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}