North Shore community officials will hold a press conference Monday to announce their support for a Mohegan Sun casino at Suffolk Downs, one day before the state Gaming Commission will decide whether the project can be shifted from East Boston to Revere.
In addition to Revere Mayor Daniel Rizzo and Lynn Mayor Judith Kennedy, who organized the event, officials from Chelsea and Salem and representatives from area chambers of commerce will argue the benefits of a Mohegan Sun casino would extend throughout the North Shore.
"(Rizzo) is really in favor of the jobs it would create," Miles Lang-Kennedy, the mayor's spokesman, said yesterday. "This is something that would benefit the city and the region."
Although both Mohegan Sun and Las Vegas billionaire Steve Wynn, who has proposed his own casino in nearby Everett, have designated Chelsea a surrounding community — which entitles it to money for impacts such as increased traffic and crime — the city is close to an agreement only with Mohegan Sun, said Chelsea City Manager Jay Ash.
"We received a call right away from Suffolk Downs' people" after the racetrack agreed to be Mohegan Sun's landlord, he said, "and I was introduced to a representative of Mohegan Sun."
Ash said he is "100 percent in support" of the Mohegan Sun project.
"I can't say that at all about Wynn," he said. "I have concerns about Wynn."
Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll said her city doesn't technically meet the definition of a surrounding community.
"But that hasn't stopped Suffolk Downs from reaching out to us and trying to make sure that regionally, this is a positive thing," Driscoll said.
In addition to proposing improvements to Route 1A, the racetrack recently held two sold-out events in Salem to give vendors the opportunity to do business with it, she said, and track officials have talked with her about how the city and Suffolk Downs can do cross-promotions.
"Wynn hasn't reached out to us," Driscoll said.
A Wynn spokesman declined to comment.
Malden Mayor Gary Christenson, however, said he has met with Wynn representatives about a dozen times and negotiated a surrounding community agreement that calls for the company to give the city $1 million if Wynn receives a casino license and $1 million annually after that.
"You can put me in there as supporting the Wynn proposal," Christenson said. "But I do understand that some of our residents and business owners are skeptical."
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