Mohegan Sun says Boston can expect fewer benefits as a surrounding community to its proposed Suffolk Downs casino than Revere will get under a new host agreement unveiled yesterday in the deal that resulted from the project being shifted a few feet over the city line after East Boston voters rejected it.
The deal stipulates Revere will receive not less than $25 million a year in "impact fees" — up from Revere's $9 million minimum under the previous plan — and up to $40 million depending on annual gaming revenue. Boston stood to receive $32 million to $52 million a year as host before the Nov. 5 vote killed an Eastie casino.
Mohegan Sun CEO Mitchell Etess said Boston is now a surrounding community in the company's eyes.
"I think that host communities have certain expenses and needs that surrounding communities do not," Etess said. "I would say it's fair to say that host communities have far more needs and mitigations that need to take place than surrounding communities."
Boston has yet to respond to Mohegan's request to begin surrounding community negotiations, and is unlikely to until Mayor-elect Martin J. Walsh takes office. Walsh said the city has to negotiate the best deal it can.
"This doesn't mean I support a casino here," Walsh said in a statement. "In fact, I find it very concerning that the casino proposals may be located within mere feet of the Boston city line, and the transportation plans are likely to have a very significant impact on our city. But if we don't work to negotiate the best deal possible for Boston, then an arbiter will decide what benefits we will receive, and the result may not be what is in the best interest of Boston."
Walsh said there are "serious questions about whether or not Boston should be considered a host community or a surrounding community" until the new Mohegan plans are filed with the Gaming Commission. The plans are due Dec. 31.
Anti-casino advocates said they will pore over the Revere agreement for indications that Boston will face equal impacts to Revere.
"Our position is Boston is a host community until somebody can definitively prove otherwise," said Matthew Cameron, an East Boston attorney who assists anti-casino activists. "We're going to keep making that argument."
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