MGM Springfield opens Friday in Massachusetts
(WorldNews Business)

To New Englanders, Friday’s opening of MGM Springfield in Massachusetts is huge. Newspaper accounts have raved about how big the place is. But by Las Vegas standards, MGM Springfield has a feel closer to a neighborhood casino than a Bellagio. Massachusetts’ item into the casino-resort era with the first of two entries from Las Vegas-based companies will be marked by an employee parade led by the Budweiser Clydesdales past a 600-pound MGM lion at the entrance. The 125,000-square-foot casino — that’s about the size of the Aliante casino — will have 120 table games and 2,550 slot machines, a poker room and a high-limit VIP area. The six-story hotel has 250 rooms,...