The MBTA is "aiding and abetting" Wynn Resorts' plans to develop a casino in Everett by offering to sell a combined two-acre block of land that would give the casino giant a new way to access the proposed site, allowing it to skirt using any land in Boston, a casino opponent charged yesterday.
But T spokesman Joe Pesaturo said that while Wynn officials approached the transit agency — the company in an Aug. 26 letter to the T offered to pay $6 million for the three parcels surrounding the MBTA's Everett repair facility — the property will be on the market in "an open and competitive bidding process."
"The T will sell it to the highest bidder," Pesaturo told the Herald in an email, adding,"The MBTA was approached by Wynn, who is interested in acquiring the land for casino- related purposes. The MBTA met with Wynn representatives in order to hear Wynn's plans. The MBTA informed Wynn that it would be open to a land transaction but that it must be an open and public process."
Celeste Myers, a co-founder of No Eastie Casino who is running for state representative, said the MBTA should not be selling its parcels just to help out Wynn.
"It's aiding and abetting the developer and enabling them to remove themselves from their responsibility as a host community," she said. "This is just another jab at the city of Boston."
Pesaturo described the parcels, which are on the edges of the T's 21-acre maintenance and repair yard, as "surplus property."
A Wynn spokesman yesterday declined to discuss the land sale, saying simply that its letter to the MBTA is "self-explanatory."
Kate Norton, a spokeswoman for Mayor Martin J. Walsh, also declined to comment on the T's willingness to sell its land but she pointed out that Wynn had refused to furnish the city with any documents that would show the location of its entrances and exits and whether they encroached the Boston city line.
After striking a lucrative surrounding community agreement with Wynn competitor Mohegan Sun for its $1.3 billion proposed Suffolk Downs casino in Revere, Boston withdrew from talks with Wynn, saying the developer was withholding key information, and ceded the decision on community impact fees to the state Gaming Commission.
The state Gaming Commission then yanked Boston's surrounding community status with the Wynn casino project in a controversial move last month that Walsh slammed as a snub to the city's taxpayers.
One of the parcels Wynn wants to buy — it's currently the near entrance to the T yard on Horizon Way — would be used for the casino's main four-lane entrance, and would allow the developer to avoid crossing the Boston city line. Another parcel would be used to create a service road for delivery trucks and employee vans.
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