The hotel motif is an homage to Springfield’s industrial roots with Edison bulb fixtures and factory-style paned glass. The six-story hotel has 250 rooms, which will go for $219 a night.
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. Massachusetts’ entry 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. Newspaper accounts have raved about how big the place is.īut by Las Vegas standards, MGM Springfield has a feel closer to a neighborhood casino than a Bellagio. To New Englanders, Friday’s opening of MGM Springfield in Massachusetts is huge. A rendering of MGM Resorts International's casino in Springfield, Massachusetts.
