Casino will no longer be eponymous

By adamg on Fri, 04/27/2018 - 5:38pm

Wynn Resorts announced today it's changing the name of its Everett casino to Encore Boston Harbor in a bid to remove the taint of sharing a name with Steve Wynn, who until recently ran the company bearing his name.

The announcement came at a Massachusetts Gaming Commission hearing on whether to formally strip alleged serial sexual attacker Steve Wynn of his right to have anything to do with gambling in Massachusetts. Commissioners will consider the issue privately before announcing a decision.

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And who exactly is this

By anon on Fri, 04/27/2018 - 6:03pm.

And who exactly is this suppose to make feel better? Not gamblers I'm sure

Wynn's victims?

By statler on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 10:12am.

I would imagine that having to see his name plastered on buildings and advertisements isn't a lot of fun?

This seems like a small concession, I'm really not sure why anyone would be opposed or even bothered by it.

Am I crazy...

By Brian Riccio on Fri, 04/27/2018 - 7:42pm.

or is this shithole on the Mystic River and nowhere near Boston Harbor?

Different name, still the same old rapist scumbag who owns it.

Not anymore

By E on Fri, 04/27/2018 - 7:47pm.

Steve Wynn sold all of his shares in Wynn Resorts, he has nothing to do with the company anymore.

Right.

By Brian Riccio on Fri, 04/27/2018 - 8:24pm.

Sure. No say whatsoever.

Here's the proof

By E on Fri, 04/27/2018 - 9:33pm.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2018/03/23/steve-wynn-no-l...

Where does Boston Harbor end?

By Ron Newman on Fri, 04/27/2018 - 10:51pm.

Some might say it ends at the Amelia Earhart Dam just upriver from the casino site, which divides salt water from fresh and tidal from non-tidal.

ThenMystic River ends at the eponymously named bridge

By Michael Fahey on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 9:20pm.

Where it and the Chelsea Creek, called the Chelsea River on some maps, empty into Boston Harbor.

We fixed racism AND sexual assault!

By Lunchbox on Fri, 04/27/2018 - 8:17pm.

We just gotta keep re-naming stuff!

It doesn't "fix" anything

By statler on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 10:14am.

Good thing no one said that it does.

As I said above it is just a small concession. Not really anything to get worked up about.

State should require Wynn to fund+build bridge to Assembly Row

By Ron Newman on Fri, 04/27/2018 - 10:46pm.

as a condition of keeping this license. Now that the state has some leverage over Wynn, use it for a constructive purpose that will benefit the region.

Just curious

By Will LaTulippe on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 12:14am.

What was your stance on La Cosa Nostra and the Winter Hill Gang? They used force to take things from people too.

sometimes

By cybah on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 6:21am.

Sometimes you have a valid point.

But I agree with Ron. I think it would benefit the casino itself if a bridge was built.

The Winter Hill gang?

By Brian Riccio on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 8:52am.

Gee, Will! When the Winter Hill gang was having fun all over Somerville, you were where exactly? Spend a lot of time playing pinochle with Howie?

And I suppose you were

By dotratfromwayback on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 1:24pm.

And I suppose you were driving Howie Winter around in your limo?

No....

By Brian Riccio on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 3:37pm.

but I'd see him every now and again at Khoury's. You?

I'm not a tough guy by

By dotratfromwayback on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 10:37am.

I'm not a tough guy by association. But I know a guy who's uncle was murdered by Winter Hill associates. Nice friends you have there.

Neither am I...

By Brian Riccio on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 11:08am.

I was just a kid from Revere, living with a Townie girl for eight years who liked to drink. That's how I got to see Howie. Never met the man once.

But you inferred that you

By anon on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 11:19am.

But you inferred that you were acquainted with him in your original post. Why do you try to pass yourself off as an internet tough guy by "knowing people"?

Actually...

By Brian Riccio on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 8:04pm.

I said I would see him. I did not say we were acquainted. I inferred nothing. If I knew him I would have said so. The rest is the usual nonsense.

Yeah

By SamWack on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 5:12pm.

and the Eisenhower-Montgomery Gang used force to take over those neighborhoods in Normandy. Thugs, the lot of them. Government violence, Cosa Nostra, all the same thing.

If I recall correctly, the

By ZachAndTired on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 10:21am.

If I recall correctly, the Wynn group originally wanted to build a pedestrian bridge to Assembly Row, but the company that owns Assembly Row shut it down because they didn't want people parking in their lots and walking to the casino.