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Looking for Better Odds
Amid Challenges, MGM Springfield Takes Strides Toward Normalcy
As he talked with BusinessWest for this issue’s focus on travel and tourism, Chris Kelly was lamenting a huge opportunity lost.
He was talking, of course, about March Madness, the college basketball tournaments that grab and hold the nation’s attention
ence — most poignantly, in the case of MGM Springfield, Connecticut — is just an extraor- dinary challenge for the city, for our work- force, for our guests, and for the property,” he explained, adding that, while he continues
to have conversations with state legislators about passing a sports-betting bill, when it
“We hadn’t had an event like that in two years, where we had people engaging with our convention and ballroom areas, staying in the hotel, eating in our restaurants ... it was a very positive thing for the property to see us come back to life.”
Chris Kelly says MGM Springfield is ready and waiting for the state to give the green light to sports betting.
for two weeks. Even more specifically, Kelly, president and chief operating officer of MGM Springfield, was referring to the gambling and related activity that goes with that madness — everything that can’t happen at his facil- ity because Massachusetts has yet to legalize sports gambling while most all the states sur- round it have.
“It’s the largest sports event, bar none, around the country, and to be now literally surrounded by states that offer that experi-
comes to March Madness, he can only wait until next year.
Fortunately, though, that is not the case with most other aspects of his multi-faceted business.
Indeed, there are plenty of positive devel- opments at the casino complex on Main Street that are creating an optimistic outlook
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