Overview
- Signed minutes before the mayoral handoff, the memorandum allows up to two third‑party hotels on 4.6 acres across Route 99 from Encore, totaling about 800 rooms and excluding gambling.
- Wynn committed up to $25 million toward a full-service MBTA Commuter Rail station next to Encore, with the contribution contingent on MBTA approvals and an agreed project scope.
- Officials also cited roughly $15 million for bus-lane upgrades and pledged funding for a pedestrian bridge over Broadway, separate from the rail contribution.
- City projections estimate roughly $10–12 million in annual revenue from hotel-related taxes, including property, room occupancy, and meals.
- New Mayor Robert Van Campen said the project will proceed as plans remain conceptual and subject to MBTA and planning-board review, noting concerns about traffic and the station’s location and pointing to a potential timeline of groundbreaking this spring and an opening in 2028.