BRIMFIELD, Mass.
MGM Resorts International, the Las Vegas-based gaming giant expected to vie with Mohegan Sun and others for a western Massachusetts casino license, has abandoned its plan to develop a resort in the town of Brimfield. The company said it will seek another western Massachusetts location.
"The unique nature of MGM's plans for an all-inclusive world-class resort on the Brimfield site, and our growing understanding of the needed scope for its infrastructure, simply do not allow us to pursue the comprehensive MGM resort originally envisioned here," Bill Hornbuckle, MGM's chief marketing officer, said in the statement.
MGM's Brimfield project called for construction of a $600 million resort that was to be accessible only by a proposed ramp from Interstate 90, the Massachusetts Turnpike.
Supporters of Mohegan Sun's plan to build a resort casino of a similar scale in Palmer, a town adjacent to Brimfield, welcomed MGM's announcement.
