Maybe they can revive thoroughbred racing in the Berkshires. (The Gaming Commission picked Wynn in 2014 over their plan.) They have since sold the track for development and will stop running horses there next month.

Sterling Suffolk Racecourse: It’s a bittersweet day for Joe O’Donnell and Richard Fields, the business partners who once wanted to build a casino at Suffolk Downs, working with Mohegan Sun.

And once the casino opens, plenty of regulatory issues will keep ML chief executive Steve Tocco and his team busy. ML Strategies: Boston’s largest lobbying firm emerges out of this dust-up with another win. The pay and benefits, he says, are tough to resist.

The Massachusetts Restaurant Association’s CEO, Bob Luz, describes it as a “sucking sound from Everett” pulling workers away from Boston. Thousands apparently have been hired already, much to the frustration of restaurateurs who are having a hard enough time finding help in a tight labor market. Wynn expects to fill up to 5,800 jobs at Encore Boston Harbor, many in food and beverage operations, including at more than a dozen casino restaurants. hasn’t sold its massive Mystic power plant across the street, but the site might be a prime candidate for redevelopment someday.īoston-area restaurants: One of the biggest losers in all of this? Boston’s independent restaurants. (It’s a different story for renters, of course.) Before his exit, Steve Wynn boasted of spending as much as $90 million to buy up sites around Lower Broadway, a largely industrial stretch. Everett businesses: Property owners near the casino hit the jackpot.

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