Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria insisted yesterday that Boston's lawsuit to repeal the Wynn resorts casino license is a retread of settled legal questions, and contains what he called a questionable claim to the road that leads to the future casino site.
"I think we've passed the hurdle of the host and surrounding community, that's already been adjudicated. I really was hoping that we could all work collaboratively," DeMaria said at a press conference that was called yesterday to celebrate Wynn's $35 million purchase of the 33-acre Everett site. Because the state Gaming Commission has already decided Boston is not a host community to the casino, DeMaria said, Boston doesn't get to vote on whether it's built, as Mayor Martin J. Walsh has demanded.
The Gaming Commission deemed Boston is not a host to the $1.6 billion casino on the Charlestown border, and later stripped the city of its status as a surrounding community after Walsh and Wynn failed to reach a deal.
A lynchpin of Walsh's claims, contained in a lawsuit filed Monday, is that the Everett site's access road, Horizon Way, is partly in Boston. DeMaria disputed Boston's claim, saying Everett has responsibility for the street, and at one point even renamed it from Chemical Lane without consulting Boston.
"For as long as I've been mayor and been on the City Council and a resident of Everett, Horizon Way ... was plowed by the city of Everett, was salted by the city of Everett, shoveled, cleaned by the city of Everett," DeMaria said.
A Walsh spokeswoman declined to comment, citing ongoing litigation.
DeMaria welcomed Wynn as official Everett landowners yesterday at Everett City Hall, presenting Wynn Everett President Robert DeSalvio with a residential city trash can as a tongue-in-cheek house-warming gift.
"With this land transaction and our arrival into the city of Everett, nothing gets in our way in terms of bringing this project to fruition," DeSalvio said.
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