Developers behind two dueling, billion-dollar resort casino bids — one promising to save thoroughbred horse racing at Suffolk Downs and the other vowing to clean up a polluted waterfront in Everett — tried to steal each other's thunder yesterday by each unveiling designs of their gaming complexes.
Standing behind a newly created portable scale model of the proposed Caesars resort at his 78-year-old racetrack, Suffolk Downs chief Chip Tuttle said he plans to "take this model on the road" after a series of "open houses" aimed to disarm opponents in neighboring East Boston and Revere.
"We are working very hard to earn this license and to earn local support," said Tuttle, who last summer released renderings of the planned resort that features two hotels, a refurbished racetrack grandstand with a gaming parlor, 10 restaurants and a 25,000-square-foot convention and entertainment hall.
A few hours earlier, with Frank Sinatra crooning "Luck be a Lady" in an Everett armory gussied up with white curtains and stage lighting, Wynn Resorts gave dozens of local officials and residents their first peek at a planned 19-story Vegas-styled glass hotel tower with a sprawling promenade of shops and restaurants.
"The idea here is introducing a magnificent development right at the heart of Everett," said Gamal Aziz, president and chief operating officer of Wynn Resorts, noting the award-winning casino operator plans to use water taxis to ferry patrons to and from Logan International Airport and downtown Boston.
Caesars, Wynn and a third developer, David Nunes, who has partnered with Foxwoods and hopes to build a resort casino off Interstate 495 in Milford, are competing for a single casino license to be issued for Eastern Massachusetts by the state Gaming Commission.
Aziz said the 2.7-million-square-foot Wynn Everett resort would recruit Beantown boutiques to rent space in its mall instead of its usual lineup of high-end shops.
"When we have international visitors and tourists from around the world, I think they will be a lot more interested in seeing something that is part of the fabric of Massachusetts than me bringing in Louis Vuitton or Cartier," he said.
The hotel will have 550 suites, ranging in size from 700 to 2,800 square feet. Construction will be done in one phase and employ 4,000 workers. Once completed, the resort will create another 4,000 permanent jobs.
One of Wynn's biggest selling points is the creation of a "river walk" on the Mystic that would connect to other waterfront paths near the Gateway Mall and downtown Everett.
"This development would really give us the opportunity to give the river walk back to the people of Everett," Aziz said, noting the company is "fully committed" to the costly cleanup of the former Monsanto chemical plant site.
Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria Jr. said residents for the first time in generations will be able to launch canoes along their waterfront. "I think we have a little more support here in Everett than they do in other cities," he added.
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