MGM Reveals Brimfield Casino Plan
A casino proposed for Brimfield would bring 3,000 permanent jobs to a town whose total population isn't much higher than that number.
MGM Resorts International, the company behind 16 resorts, including major Las Vegas names like Belaggio and MGM Grand, says it will buy 150 acres of land in Brimfield for the project. The casino, with the working name Rolling Hills Resort, would be located just north of the Massachusetts Turnpike.
MGM Chairman and CEO Jim Murren spoke at a press conference in Brimfield this morning to introduce the plan. He was joined by David Callahan, the head of Palmer Paving Corp. and principal of the realty trust that plans to sell the property to MGM.
Callahan initially proposed the idea of building a casino on the property on October.
MGM said in a statement that its plan is for a "world-class resort" in Brimfield's rural setting. The development would include a new off-ramp from the turnpike and would create several thousand temporary construction jobs.
To move forward, the resort would have to win a competitive state license for the Western Massachusetts region. A plan passed by the state last year provides three licenses: one in Western Massachusetts, one in an area that encompasses Central Massachusetts and the Boston area and a third in Southeastern Massachusetts.
Its planned location in Brimfield places the MGM resort in competition with several other proposed casinos, including one that the operators of Connecticut's Mohegan Sun casino hope to build in neighboring Palmer.
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