With wary optimism, Palmer pins hopes on casino
PALMER - In front of a shuttered market on a lonely Main Street, Tiffany Beaudoin recalled better days, when residents of this battered town made a good living in the factories, when downtown shops and restaurants thrived. There was a movie theater, she said, right over there by the train tracks.
The factories are long gone. The theater is now a parking lot.
Looking at the distant wooded hill where local officials hope to see a half-billion-dollar resort casino, Beaudoin spoke for her town: “Bring it,’’ she said. “There are no jobs here, not anymore. We need this, sooner the better.’’
Like perhaps no other town in Massachusetts, Palmer has pinned its hopes on a casino as an economic savior that could reverse years of decline and usher in a new day. Residents have celebrated the possibilities as lawmakers welcomed casino gambling into Massachusetts, ending years of debate and setting off a fierce competition for licenses.
Palmer’s affection for a local casino is decidedly mutual. Mohegan Sun planted its flag in the town of 12,000 several years ago, opening a storefront office to woo residents and eyeing 150 acres of undeveloped land just off the Massachusetts Turnpike as a prime location to draw people from every direction.
“That location, right off the highway, is pretty amazing,’’ said Mitchell Etess, chief executive of the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority, which will vie with a number of competitors for the right to build in Western Massachusetts.
Under the new law, casinos must win the approval of local voters, and company officials have aggressively built local support, glad-handing residents at local events and trumpeting the economic benefits of casinos at every turn.
In the window of the company’s Main Street storefront, which opened two years ago, a pair of plush, high-backed chairs are set before a formal dinner table, where a sign reads: “This table is reserved for you at Mohegan Sun.’’ Shopping bags from Coach and Godiva sit nearby, a hint of purchases to come.
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