With 671 guest rooms, a 210,000 square-foot casino, more than 3,000 slot machines, a 37,000 square-foot ballroom, a 21,000 square-foot waterfront lawn and more than a dozen restaurants and bars, everything about the Encore Boston Harbor resort and casino is immense. That includes the wager its developer, Wynn Resorts, is placing on its success. The enterprise cost $2.6 billion dollars to build, at a time when many East Coast casinos are struggling. And the development had been shrouded in controversy for the last 13 months because of sexual harassment allegations against the company’s founder. “If you go downtown Boston you see nothing other than cranes,” said Bob DeSalvio, president of Encore Boston Harbor.

Source: International New York Times May 01, 2019 16:52 UTC