Follow-up (March 29, 2019) Rush Street Gaming is now using MGM Springfield as an excuse for seeking tax breaks from the NYS Legislature. To us, it looks like a destination resort (see images at the head of this blurb), not a mediocre regional facility like Rivers Casino.
update (July 31, 2018): See the Times Union “ New competition for Capital Region gambling dollars ” (by David Lombard, July 26, 2018), an article about MGM Springfield, the almost-billion-dollar casino opening August 24th, just 100 miles away in Western Massachusetts, and already being advertised heavily on local tv as a true Las Vegas-style casino. Here, we discuss the lackluster design of Rivers Casino, due to the failure of our snowmen-like leaders to demand better. The Snowmen Effect #1: This posting is the first in our new The Snowmen Effect category, in which we will point out how inadequate protection of the public interest has resulted in a less attractive, less safe, less successful, and/or less responsible Rivers Casino in Schenectady.
