Massachusetts gambling regulators are completing casino licenses for MGM Resorts International and Wynn Resorts after voters emphatically rejected repealing the state’s casino law.
The gambling giants were granted operating licenses pending the outcome of the November election. Thursday’s votes by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission should set in motion state and local payments the casinos will have to make.
The commission also will vote on applicants for state horse racing licenses and look ahead to 2015, when it hopes to award the state’s final resort casino license, which is reserved for the Fall River-New Bedford region.
MGM won the western region casino license for a proposed $800 million resort in Springfield while Wynn won the Boston-area license for its $1.6 billion plan for the Everett waterfront.
