{"id":41894,"date":"2016-11-11T17:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T01:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=41894"},"modified":"2016-11-11T16:10:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T00:10:50","slug":"rhode-island-new-casino-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/rhode-island-new-casino-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhode Island Votes for New Casino a Stone\u2019s Throw from Massachusetts Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_41895\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41895\" data-style=\"width: 855px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/twin-river-casino-exterior.jpg\" alt=\"Rhode Island Votes for New Casino\" width=\"855\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/twin-river-casino-exterior.jpg 855w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/twin-river-casino-exterior-142x66.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/twin-river-casino-exterior-768x359.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/twin-river-casino-exterior-166x78.jpg 166w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/twin-river-casino-exterior-641x300.jpg 641w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 855px) 100vw, 855px\" \/><figcaption  id=\"caption-attachment-41895\"class=\"text-description\">The Twin River Casino in Lincoln, Rhode Island. Twin River has received overwhelming voter approval to build a new casino on the Massachusetts border. (Image: Twin River)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">Rhode Island\u2019s voters have hit back against Massachusetts\u2019 gambling expansion by voting to authorize a new casino in Tiverton, just a few hundred yards from the border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The casino was approved statewide Tuesday but still need local approval, which it received Thursday night following a count of mail-in ballots. The vote follows a $5 million campaign by developer Twin River, which owns the Twin River Casino in Lincoln and the Newport Grand in Newport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">John Taylor, the company\u2019s chairman, said that the new casino will create 300 temporary construction jobs and upwards of 550 permanent jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It will also be contributing to the Rhode Island economy and keep the state competitive in the face of new casinos in Massachusetts.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cToday Twin River generates about $27 million in revenue to the state of Rhode Island,\u201d Taylor told Eyewitness News. \u201cWith this proposal it would generate $50 million, but also as much as $70 million depending on competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><b>Border Wars<\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Taylor makes no bones about the fact that he expects the casino to attract a sizeable portion of its customers from across the border in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/massachusetts-plainridge-park-casino-posts-revenue-increase-for-typically-slow-january\">Massachusetts<\/a>, which is also facing a similar casino border war with Connecticut to its west.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Massachusetts voted to legalize casino gaming in 2011. This elicited a quick response from Rhode Island, which, in 2012, voted to allow table games at Twin River, which previously only offered slots. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"main-blockquote\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Twin River is now competing directly with Plainridge Park in Massachusetts, a slots-only casino, and the state\u2019s first, which opened in 2015. Lower than projected revenues at Plainridge have been blamed, in part, on the table games at Twin River.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><b>Shifting Landscape<\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Meanwhile, two multi-billion-dollar megaresorts, developed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/mgm-national-harbor-not-responsible-for-traffic-enforcement-costs\">MGM Resorts<\/a> and Wynn Resorts respectively, are scheduled to open on opposing sides of Massachusetts in the next few years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Tiverton casino is modest in comparison with the MGM Springfield and the Wynn Boston Harbor, but won\u2019t be in direct competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">With construction costs of $75 million, the Tiverton casino will feature 1,000 slot machines, 32 gaming tables and an 84-room hotel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It could, however, be competing with a new project just across the border in Taunton, proposed for Mashpee Wampanoag sovereign land. The tribe broke ground on the $1 billion casino earlier this year, but work has paused due to an ongoing lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Clyde Barrow, a University of Texas professor who specializes in public policy studies, told the Boston Globe that if the Tiverton casino opens first, the tribe could either choose to scale back its plans due to increased market pressure, or it could gamble on building an even\u00a0larger property in an attempt to outperform Tiverton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhode Island\u2019s voters have hit back against Massachusetts\u2019 gambling expansion by voting to authorize a new casino in Tiverton, just a few hundred yards from the border. The casino was approved statewide Tuesday but still need local approval, which it received Thursday night following a count of mail-in ballots. The vote follows a $5 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":41895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,13,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rhode Island Votes for New Casino a Stone\u2019s Throw from Massachusetts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rhode Island to press ahead with Tiverton casino following voter approval.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rhode Island Votes for New Casino a Stone\u2019s Throw from Massachusetts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rhode Island to press ahead with Tiverton casino following voter approval.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/rhode-island-new-casino-massachusetts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Casino.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-11-12T01:00:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-11-12T00:10:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/twin-river-casino-exterior.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"855\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Casino.org Staff Writer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Casino.org Staff Writer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/rhode-island-new-casino-massachusetts\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/rhode-island-new-casino-massachusetts\/\",\"name\":\"Rhode Island Votes for New Casino a Stone\u2019s Throw from Massachusetts\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/rhode-island-new-casino-massachusetts\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/rhode-island-new-casino-massachusetts\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/twin-river-casino-exterior.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-11-12T01:00:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-11-12T00:10:50+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8c48bf89dc86da77b4d856c7b3b78d77\"},\"description\":\"Rhode Island to press ahead with Tiverton casino following voter approval.\u00a0\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/rhode-island-new-casino-massachusetts\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/rhode-island-new-casino-massachusetts\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/rhode-island-new-casino-massachusetts\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/twin-river-casino-exterior.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/twin-river-casino-exterior.jpg\",\"width\":855,\"height\":400,\"caption\":\"The Twin River Casino in Lincoln, Rhode Island. 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