Dining choices include The Chandler Steakhouse, Costa, TAP Sports Bar and South End Market. It features 74,000 square feet of gaming, 34,000 square feet of meeting space, movie theater, bowling alley. Hotel room prices range from about $200 to $700. Specialties: MGM Springfield is a new 240 room hotel and casino located in downtown Springfield.
MGM is smoke free and will serve alcohol until 4 a.m., which is two hours later than the other resorts. MGM said security includes more than 2,000 surveillance cameras, police and bomb sniffing dogs. The systems are of high integrity and people of Massachusetts can count on this being a highly secure and high integrity facility.” “We will be watching every single day to make sure the money goes where the money is supposed to go.
“The market is there because the market is underserved right now,” Steven Crosby, who is the chair of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, said, adding that the resort is safe and secure. The commission called other casinos “modest,” including twin river’s Tiverton location, which is set to open in September. The state’s gaming commission said MGM will bring an estimated $100 million into Massachusetts. State data shows Massachusetts residents make up about a third of Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun visitors.
