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Encore Boston Harbor lowers table game minimums and drops self-service parking fees

November 23, 2019

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Casino News, Gaming Industry News, Economy/Finance, Poker, The Players Lounge, Massachusetts

Some five months after opening its $2.6 billion Encore Boston Harbor, American casino operator Wynn Resorts Limited has now reportedly decided to do away with the Massachusetts facility’s steep $50 gaming table...

Encore Boston Harbor announces free self-park 7 days a week

K Morrison

October 6, 2019

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Casino News, Massachusetts

One of the major complaints prior to the highly-anticipated opening of Encore Boston Harbor, the cost of self-parking, has reportedly been addressed. Wynn Resorts has eliminated the cost of self-parking at i...

Investigation “preliminarily” determines that Encore Boston Harbor casino is not cheating gamblers out of winnings

K Morrison

July 19, 2019

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Casino News, Gaming Industry News, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation, Massachusetts

Gaming regulators in Massachusetts say that a preliminary investigation shows that the newly-opened Encore Boston Harbor is not cheating gamblers out of their winnings as alleged in a class-action suit filed on...

Encore Boston Harbor unveils plan to introduce water taxi service

Adam Morgan

March 26, 2019

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Casino News, Casino project updates, Massachusetts

In Massachusetts, Wynn Resorts Limited has reportedly announced that it hopes to attract even more patrons to its soon-to-open Encore Boston Harbor integrated casino resort by introducing a free shuttle service...

Wynn Resorts Limited being sued in Massachusetts

Adam Morgan

June 15, 2018

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Casino News, Licenses, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation, Massachusetts

In Massachusetts, American casino operator Wynn Resorts Limited is reportedly being sued amid claims that it breached a handshake agreement by not paying a former minority owner of the land under the coming Enc...

Wynn Resorts buying $100m in real estate surrounding casino

Alex Lanter

November 2, 2017

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Casino project updates, Economy/Finance, Massachusetts

Wynn Resorts Limited will reportedly spend somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 million to purchase properties in surrounding its Wynn Boston Harbor Resort in Everett, to help improve the host neighborhood, th...

Mark Juliano resigns as boss for Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem

Adam Morgan

July 18, 2017

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Gaming Industry News, Mergers, Acquisitions & Partnerships, Pennsylvania

As it continues with negotiations to offload its Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem to rival firm MGM Resorts International, American casino operator Las Vegas Sands Corporation has reportedly announced that Mark Ju...

Wynn Resorts Limited declares opposition to Question One

Adam Morgan

September 19, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Gaming Law & Legislation, Casino News, Massachusetts

American casino operator Wynn Resorts Limited has voiced its opposition to a proposal that could see voters in the state of Massachusetts approve a second slots-only gambling facility just three miles away from...

Wynn Boston Harbor Resort opening date revealed

Adam Morgan

August 20, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Casino project updates, Massachusetts

American casino operator Wynn Resorts Limited has announced that the planned $2.1 billion Wynn Boston Harbor Resort waterfront hotel and casino near Boston is scheduled to open in June of 2019. According to ...

Wynn Boston Harbor Resort receives building permit

Adam Morgan

May 11, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Casino News, Casino project updates, Massachusetts

Three years after residents in the Boston suburb of Everett overwhelmingly backed a plan to construct the Wynn Boston Harbor Resort, city officials have now issued the $2 billion project a building permit. C...

Groundbreaking for Everett casino postponed by Wynn

K Morrison

February 25, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Casino project updates, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation, Massachusetts

Poised to start construction on a $1.7 billion casino this spring, Wynn President Robert DeSalvio said at a press conference on Wednesday, the groundbreaking will be postponed indefinitely due to an administrat...

Wynn would pay for Boston subway improvements in casino plan

K Morrison

August 1, 2015

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Casino proposals, Casino openings, New Hotels, Casino project updates, Massachusetts

American business magnate, Steve Wynn, along with Wynn Resorts, wants to help Boston’s subway system by giving it a $7 million plus revitalization. It’s no coincidence that the subway passes near the Everett...