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Massachusetts track owner makes casino pitch4 October 2007MASSACHUSETTS -- As reported by the Boston Globe: "Businessman George Carney is willing to bet his 100-acre Raynham-Taunton Greyhound Park that he has his competitors beat hands down in the race to build a casino in Southeastern Massachusetts. "Carney has a grand vision for his park: Slot machines and gaming tables would fill the big building that overlooks the racetrack. Restaurants and shops would dot the landscape. Down the street, on another 100 acres he owns, could be a golf course. "...Anyone can dream about becoming proprietor of the state's first casino resort, but Carney has reason to think he can make it happen. And if it does, it will come at the cost of neighboring Middleborough, which backs the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe's plan for a casino on the 500 acres the tribe recently bought off Route 44 in town. "...Clyde Barrow, a casino specialist at the Center for Policy Analysis at University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, says Carney's racetrack is indeed well positioned..." |