If Massachusetts picks the right locations for its new gaming resorts, it will pull the plug on much of the $853 million Bay State gamblers spent last year in New England states while drawing gamblers from other states, a new study says.
"Where the commonwealth ultimately sites three casinos and the slot parlor will determine whether Massachusetts is able to reassert dominance over New England's gaming entertainment and tourism sectors," said study author Clyde W. Barrow of the Center for Policy Analysis at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
Massachusetts Gaming Commission Chairman Stephen Crosby called the study "good news" and agreed that siting the Bay State's gaming venues will be critical both in competing with other states' casinos and slots parlors, but also in putting them in places where they will be most attractive to the maximum number of Bay State gamblers.
The study showed Bay State gamblers spent $853 million in 2012 in other New England states including Connecticut, Rhode Island and Maine.
"The first criteria, although not the only one, when people choose a facility is convenience, and right now people in Massachusetts have been leaving the state for other facilities," Crosby said. "But convenience is not the only thing, and we're going to have very fancy, very high-end facilities . . . To maximize the economic benefit here in Massachusetts we need to maximize the convenience to people in Massachusetts, and we want to site them so they have the maximum draw for people from outside of the state."
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