Location: Route 16 and Interstate 495
Suitor: Foxwoods Massachusetts
(originally Crossroads Massachusetts
LLC)
Size: 660,000 square feet (Phase 1)
Investment: $1 billion
Host agreement: Negotiations
Referendum: Not scheduled
Aug. 31
Mitigation public meetings:
environmental/design impacts.
August
Negotiation would begin for host
community agreement if selectmen opt to
move forward.
December
If agreement signed, townwide referendum
must be scheduled within 60-90
days. Mass. Gaming Commission must
rule on suitability of applicants.
If voters approve host community
agreement at referendum, the proposal
would go to special town meeting for
approval to change zoning to
commercial/industrial (two-thirds majority
needed). If referendum and town meeting
approve agreement, and state approves
suitability of applicants, Phase 2
application to state must be filed by Dec.
31.
April 2014
State to award one license for Eastern
Massachusetts region and one for
Western Massachusetts by April 2014. An
Indian tribe license for Southeastern
Massachusetts will be awarded by
November 2014.mitigation required).
Adjacent towns: Upton, Hopkinton,
Holliston, Medway, Bellingham, Hopedale