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Competing Casino Proposals Possible In Downtown Springfield

Two Massachusetts businessmen, who happen to be brothers, may be competing to build a resort casino in the downtown area of the state’s third largest city.   WAMC”s Paul Tuthill reports.

             A company controlled by Peter Picknelly is offering to buy the North Main street property owned by the Republican Newspaper of Springfield  for a casino development. And, according to the paper, Paul Picknelly  has approached city officials about a plan to build a casino along South Main street.  Springfield City Council President James Ferrera says the level of interest in a casino for Springfield is exciting.

            Nevada based gaming company Ameristar has purchased a former industrial site on the city’s east side for a casino.. The state’’s new gambling law allows for one casino license in the four western most counties..

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.