“I just feel Encore’s not playing fair. They want to call themselves Encore Boston, but they don’t want to pay [a Boston] rate.”
Councilmember Peter Pietrantonio, whose ward includes Encore · to The Boston Globe, September 16, 20261
What Wynn did to Everett.
And what it might do for an encore.
Everett, Massachusetts, took Wynn at its word in 2014. Seven years after the casino opened, the city’s mayor and council are saying, on the record, what that word turned out to be worth. This page is that story, told in Wynn’s own filings and Everett’s own voices, for the people Wynn is talking to now.
Our position is simple. Georgia should license no casino operator, Wynn or anyone else, without the promises written into the license and a penalty for missing them.
“We agree with you that a company’s track record is the best predictor of its future conduct.”Craig Billings, Chief Executive Officer, Wynn Resorts · letter to a Georgia state representative, September 8, 20262
In 2014, Wynn said all the right things.
To win the only casino license for greater Boston, Wynn told the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, in its application and its licensing commitments, what Everett would get.3 These were not campaign slogans. They were the numbers the license was awarded on. What happened to each one comes from Wynn’s own numbers: its workforce reports back to the same Commission, and the benefits, retention, and tuition figures the company itself handed over at the bargaining table. Nobody had to investigate. The company wrote it down itself.4
- Careers
“86.3 percent of workers still employed by year five.”344.9%
Still employed in year four.4
- The second phase
“A 1.8-million-square-foot second phase, East of Broadway, with phase one open by fall 2025.”4
- Childcare
“Provisions for employee daycare at an adjacent location.”3No program.
No known employee daycare exists.4
- Tuition
“Tuition reimbursement.”315 workers
Approved for tuition help, across every Wynn property in the United States.4
Imagery ©2026 Airbus, Maxar Technologies, Map data ©2026 Google
Everett believed it.
Everett is a working city of about 50,000 people across the Mystic River from Boston. Its voters approved the casino. Its mayor campaigned for it, stood beside the company for a decade, and gave Wynn the endorsement the company still shows to Georgia legislators.8
“Whatever Wynn promises to do, they do it better than anyone else.”
Carlo DeMaria, Mayor of Everett 2008–2026, as quoted on slide 17 of Wynn’s presentation to the Georgia House study committee, August 25, 20258
Councilmember Guerline Alcy JabouinEverett City Council hearing on Encore · May 26, 2026 · video, 1:23:599“When the casino was coming in, it was a village. When they say it takes a village, it took a village in Everett for the casino to come. We were all excited.”
“When the casino got approved, there was this excitement about the promise of all the resources and how you would be a resource to the city of Everett.”
Wynn got what it wanted. Everett is on the record about what it got.
The promises worked. Wynn won the license in 2014 and opened Encore Boston Harbor in June 2019.10 Since September 4, 2026, more than 1,300 of its housekeepers, cooks, servers, bartenders, and slot attendants have been on strike for pay in line with the unionized hotels a few miles away in downtown Boston.1112 Four months before the strike, Everett’s elected officials had already said what they thought of Wynn’s record in Everett.
Everett’s city council, on the record
In May 2026, Everett’s City Council called Wynn’s representative in to answer for the record before renewing one of Encore’s city licenses, its innholder’s license. This is what the city’s elected officials said, on video.9 The council then renewed that license over three no votes, from Councilmembers Pietrantonio, Jabouin, and Capone.13
“We were promised the world that we never got. A lot of us are disappointed in the way we were neglected by the casino, the lack of work that Everett workers have been kept away from. The good pay jobs, the services, it doesn’t look good. We took you guys in with open arms, even though we were blindsided by the agreement that most of us have never seen to this day.”
“You’re a big company. You’re making a lot of money over there, and, you know, I thought we were gonna get more, and I think the people of Everett thought we were gonna get a better bang out of this.”
“I guess we were a five star when you wanted to do business with the city of Everett. But now that you’re already here, are you looking down on the citizens of Everett?”
After Wynn’s representative said Everett residents must “meet the qualifications” of a five-star resort. By the figure discussed at the hearing, 83 percent of Encore’s employees are not from Everett.
“They treat us like they run the city. … We finally got them. Let’s not let them off the hook. … Let’s hold Encore to the fire.”
“They have actually not provided the report of jobs that they are required to do. They have not provided a bunch of items.”
“There is not one Everett business that is in Encore today. They can’t afford the lease.”
The mayor
Two days before Everett elected him in November 2025, Robert Van Campen posted a video of himself standing in front of Encore, accusing the incumbent of being too lenient on Wynn in the original casino negotiations: “It’s time to elect a mayor who puts residents ahead of developers.”14 In office he has been careful. He has said the January hotel deal has positives and that “the question is now going to be implementation,” and he has said he wants Encore to succeed because Everett needs it to.15 That is what makes what he said on the first Saturday of the strike, with a megaphone, on Broadway, worth watching.16
Robert J. Van Campen, Mayor of EverettTo striking workers on the Encore picket line · September 5, 2026 · reported by NBC Boston16“When Encore came to Everett, when Wynn came to Everett many years ago, the commitment was good jobs, fair wages, and to transform lives. And that is a commitment that I am expecting Encore to meet with all of you.”
Mayor Van Campen, Encore picket line, Broadway, Everett · Saturday, September 5, 2026 · 1:23. Video: UNITE HERE Local 26.
Transcript
“First of all, what an incredible show of solidarity here this morning. And I want to commend all of you for standing strong, for what you’re doing. When Encore came to Everett, when Wynn came to Everett many years ago, the commitment was good jobs, fair wages, and to transform lives. And that is a commitment that I am expecting Encore to meet with all of you.
Some of you may know that before I became mayor, I was a labor attorney, union side. I fought for the right to collectively bargain, the right to organize, the right to negotiate fair contracts. They gave members a living wage. So I want to say, my hope is you guys can get back to the table as soon as possible. I’m here in solidarity with each and every one of you.
One thing I will say: Encore is important to the city of Everett, but more important are the people who work there who make it successful. So I’m here with you today in solidarity. Thank you.”
The workers
“It’s not like we are asking for much. What we are asking for is the Boston standard.”
Icylyn Whittaker, groundskeeper, at Encore since it opened · The Boston Globe, September 4, 202612
“At the end of the day, all these people you see in line, we are the ones that make a 5-star hotel and whoever is inside now, they cannot maintain that, I’ll tell you that much.”
Lajla Lamadzema, Encore opening crew, 2019 · Boston 25 News, September 7, 202617
“Encore has made so much money in Everett. It’s time to fulfill their promises of higher salaries and Five-Star treatment for the workers.”
Glenda Garcia, overnight utility porter, public areas department · May 2023, during Encore’s first contract fight
“It’s kind of sad that we have to get to this point, you know? I was hoping that we could sit down and negotiate, go back and forth, but it didn’t happen, it just didn’t happen.”
Kathy Woodard, public areas department, at Encore since it opened · NBC Boston, September 4, 202618
The regulators
Everett’s council and workers are not the only ones with a file on Wynn. Two findings from the public record, in the regulators’ own words.
The fine the Commission imposed on Wynn Resorts as a condition of keeping the Encore license, citing “numerous violations of controlling statutes and regulations largely pertaining to a pervasive failure to properly investigate in accordance with existing policies and procedures, and to notify the Commission about certain allegations of wrongdoing.” The Commission also fined the chief executive $500,000 personally and imposed an independent monitor on the company.19
The amount Wynn Las Vegas forfeited to settle criminal allegations that it conspired with unlicensed money transmitting businesses. Under a non-prosecution agreement, the company “admitted that it illegally used unregistered money transmitting businesses to circumvent the conventional financial system.”20
Neither finding was volunteered. One came from a state gaming regulator doing what Georgia’s proposed gaming commission would be asked to do.21 The other came from federal prosecutors.
Now Wynn is telling Georgia that Everett went well.
On August 25, 2025, Wynn’s president of development walked the Georgia House study committee on gaming through 51 slides about Encore Boston Harbor and described a resort like it for Georgia.228 A year later, four days into the strike, Wynn’s chief executive wrote to a Georgia legislator who had asked about Everett.2 The letter did not mention a council that had just voted on whether to renew one of Encore’s licenses, a new mayor who had campaigned on his predecessor being too lenient on Wynn, or a picket line. Both described a success, and both made Georgia the same promises Everett heard in 2014.
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Wynn ResortsTo Georgia
“These are commitments that we made, and commitments that we have kept.”
Craig Billings, CEO, on Everett · letter to a Georgia state representative, September 8, 20262
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Wynn ResortsTo Georgia
“A Wynn casino in Georgia could employ between 3,000 and 4,000 workers.”
Christopher Gordon, President, Wynn Development, to the Georgia House study committee on gaming, August 25, 2025, as reported by Bisnow22
What Everett knows2,298 full-time jobs.Wynn promised Everett 3,287 full-time-equivalent jobs in 2014.3 As of July 1, 2026, it reported 2,298 full-time and 1,023 part-time jobs to its regulator; the full-time count was down from 2,367 three months earlier.5 Georgia is being offered the number Everett was offered, by the company that did not deliver it.
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Wynn ResortsTo Georgia
“We have consistently delivered on our promises to communities, employees, and government partners.”
Billings, same letter2
What Everett knows“I thought we were gonna get more.”Councilmember Matewsky, to Wynn’s representative, May 26, 2026.9 “They have actually not provided the report of jobs that they are required to do,” the council president said in May.9 More than 1,300 employees have been on strike since September 4.11
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Wynn ResortsTo Georgia
“We invested $2.6 billion in constructing Encore Boston Harbor and single-handedly transformed a contaminated industrial site into a world-class destination and a lasting economic engine.”
Billings, same letter2
What Everett knowsSold in year three.Wynn sold the building for $1.7 billion in 2022 and rents it back.2324 The promised second phase was suspended in 2024 for “other current opportunities” for its capital, while the company’s money went to a casino in the United Arab Emirates.625 “There is not one Everett business that is in Encore today,” the council president told Wynn.9
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Wynn ResortsTo Georgia
“Whatever Wynn promises to do, they do it better than anyone else.”
Former Mayor Carlo DeMaria, as still shown by Wynn on slide 17 to Georgia legislators8
What Everett knowsEverett replaced him.In November 2025 Everett elected Robert Van Campen, who campaigned in front of the casino on the charge that his predecessor had been too lenient on Wynn.14 Wynn is showing Georgia an endorsement from a mayor his own city has since voted out.
Slide 29 of 51, titled Project Facts, filed under “The Results.”8
Plus 1,023 part-time, as of July 1, 2026.5 The slide counts heads. The promise was made in full-time equivalents.
On the contract, Wynn says the same thing in both states. The statement its spokesperson gave Boston reporters on the first day of the strike and the letter its chief executive sent to Georgia four days later use the same figures, nearly word for word.162
“…union wages and benefits have increased 36.8% over the past four years, while revenue has grown 1.9%.”
Encore Boston Harbor statement, as reported by NBC Boston16
“Over the last four years, union wages and benefits have increased by 36.8%. Over the same period, consumer prices in the Boston area have increased by 8.5% and Encore Boston Harbor’s revenue has increased by 1.9%.”
Craig Billings, Chief Executive Officer, Wynn Resorts2
Georgia is not being told something new. It is being told what Everett was told, by a company that knows how Everett turned out.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
Write the promise into the license.
Everett did not lose its promises to bad luck. It lost them because they were made before the license and never measured after it. Wynn says its track record is the best predictor of its conduct.2 Georgia can take the company at its word and put the record in the contract. That is our position: license no one, Wynn or anyone else, without these three terms in writing.
- A job number, in the license, with a penalty if it is missed.Everett was promised 3,287 full-time-equivalent jobs and had 2,298 full-time and 1,023 part-time jobs as of July 1, 2026. Nothing happened.35
- A date for every promised phase, and a consequence if it passes.Everett’s second phase was due by fall 2025. It was suspended in 2024 for “other current opportunities” for the company’s capital.46
- Retention and benefits reported every year, to the state, in public.Wynn projected that 86.3 percent of its workers would still be there by year five. In year four it was 44.9 percent. The jobs count exists because Massachusetts makes Wynn report it. The retention figure exists only because the union demanded it at the bargaining table.345
Wynn’s promises travel. So does the record.
UNITE HERE Local 26 represents the people who make Encore Boston Harbor work. We keep the documents. We will brief any member of the General Assembly, any city council, any editorial board in Georgia, on the record and with sources, on what Wynn promised Everett and what Everett received.
Georgia gets to decide with the file open. Everett did not.
The rest of the file.
Everything above is the story. Everything below is the paperwork, for anyone who has to defend a vote.
Where Wynn’s money went
The building itself was sold three years after it opened, for $1.7 billion, to a landlord in another state. Wynn now rents it back for $100 million a year, rising.2324 From 2023 through 2025 the company reinvested $130.1 million in Everett and sent $1.06 billion to its new casino in the United Arab Emirates.2625 In January 2026, hours before Everett’s longtime mayor left office, Wynn signed a smaller, separate agreement: third-party hotels on its Lower Broadway land and up to $25 million toward a commuter rail stop, with no theater, poker room, or nightclub. The hotels still need Planning Board review and the rail money depends on MBTA approval. As of September 2026, no construction or Planning Board filing has been reported.7
What Wynn promises Georgia, what it promised Everett, what Everett got
- The investment
Promised to Georgia · 2025–2026
“We invested $2.6 billion in constructing Encore Boston Harbor and single-handedly transformed a contaminated industrial site into a world-class destination and a lasting economic engine.”2
- Community
Promised to Georgia · 2025–2026
“Delivered more than $370 million in community payments … and donated more than $15 million to local nonprofits.”2
Promised to Everett · 2014 licenseHost and surrounding community payments as terms of the license,10 plus the promises that were not contractual: employee daycare and tuition reimbursement.3
What Everett gotThe contract was paid. The promises were not.Childcare: no known program. Tuition: 15 workers approved, across all of Wynn’s U.S. properties.4
- Taxes
Promised to Georgia · 2025–2026
“Since its opening in 2019, we have generated more than $1.1 billion in tax revenue.”2
Promised to Everett · 2014 licenseThe tax is set by statute, not by promise: “The Commonwealth receives 25% of gross gaming revenues.” Any licensed operator pays it.10
- Track record
Promised to Georgia · 2025–2026
“Across every jurisdiction in which we operate, Las Vegas, Boston, Macau, London, and, soon, the United Arab Emirates, we have consistently delivered on our promises to communities, employees, and government partners.”2
Promised to Everett · 2014 licenseWhat a Massachusetts licensee owes its regulator: to investigate wrongdoing and to report it.19
What Everett got$35 million. $130 million.In 2019 the Commission found Wynn suitable to keep its license, on condition of a $35 million fine for “a pervasive failure to properly investigate” and to notify regulators, and an independent monitor.19 In 2024 Wynn Las Vegas forfeited $130,131,645 to federal prosecutors after admitting it “illegally used unregistered money transmitting businesses.”20
- Workers who organize
Promised to Georgia · 2025–2026
“While we respect the rights of workers to organize.”2
Promised to Everett · 2014 licenseBy Wynn’s own account, a restaurant inside Encore was carved out of the union contract in 2023 and leased to a third-party operator.2
What Everett gotThey voted. It closed.“In early 2026, Seamark’s employees voted to unionize.” Wynn calls the closure that followed “a business decision made by the independent third-party operator.” That is how Wynn’s own letter tells it.2
Wynn’s response, and where Georgia stands
On the contract, Wynn has said the same thing in both states. The statement its spokesperson gave Boston reporters on the first day of the strike and the letter its chief executive sent to a Georgia legislator four days later cite the same figures, nearly word for word: union pay and benefits up 36.8 percent over four years, revenue up 1.9 percent.162 Where it stands in Georgia: a Senate resolution to authorize casinos and sports betting, SR 131, died in committee in February 2025.21 A House sports-betting amendment failed on March 6, 2026, 63 to 98, short of the two-thirds required.28 The industry coalition Wynn joined named its preferred Atlanta sites as far back as 2021, among them Centennial Yards and the CNN Center.29
Check every number yourself
- The Boston Globe, Karyna Cheung, “Encore Boston Harbor strike: Elected officials back workers,” September 16, 2026, quoting Everett City Councilor Peter Pietrantonio, “who represents the district in which Encore sits and sponsored his city’s resolution”: “I just feel Encore’s not playing fair. They want to call themselves Encore Boston, but they don’t want to pay [a Boston] rate.” The bracketed words are the Globe’s. The same article reports Mayor Van Campen’s written statement that he “stand[s] with the workers exercising that right” to strike.
- Craig Billings, Chief Executive Officer, Wynn Resorts, Limited, letter to a Georgia state representative, dated September 8, 2026, two pages, on Wynn Resorts letterhead, responding to the representative’s inquiry about Wynn’s interest in Georgia and its operations at Encore Boston Harbor. Copy on file with UNITE HERE Local 26; quotations are verbatim. The scanned copy is cut at the top of page two; nothing from that line is quoted here.
- Massachusetts Gaming Commission, Region A Economic Development evaluation report (2014), documenting Wynn’s licensing commitments: 3,287 full-time-equivalent jobs, benefits of $11,493 per full-time worker per year not including “healthcare contributions paid directly to unions,” an 86.3% year-five retention rate, a tuition reimbursement program, and provisions for employee daycare at an adjacent location.
- Delivered figures: Encore Boston Harbor full-time employment from Massachusetts Gaming Commission quarterly workforce reports; East of Broadway commitments and status from Gaming Commission development filings (February 2022) and The Boston Globe (December 2025); benefits per worker, retention, and tuition reimbursement figures from company data provided in negotiations.
- Massachusetts Gaming Commission, Public Meeting Materials, August 27, 2026, page 171, Encore Boston Harbor “Workforce Composition”: as of July 1, 2026, 2,298 full-time, 1,023 part-time, 3,321 total employees; as of April 1, 2026, 2,367 full-time.
- The Boston Globe, “Wynn halts planned $400 million casino expansion amid financial dispute with Everett,” May 9, 2024, quoting a Wynn Resorts spokeswoman: the city’s financial terms “simply do not make the project viable, given the other current opportunities we have for deployment of our capital”; and Boston.com, “Encore casino expansion put on hold over tax, financial disagreement with Everett,” May 9, 2024.
- WBUR, “Wynn Resorts, Everett reach deal on hotel and commuter rail development,” January 7, 2026: memorandum of agreement signed “hours before longtime Everett leader Carlo DeMaria handed the keys over to new Mayor Robert Van Campen” on January 5, 2026; one or two third-party hotels of up to 800 rooms on Wynn-owned Lower Broadway land; up to $25 million toward a commuter rail station; no gambling component; separate from the expansion suspended in May 2024, which had included a poker room, a second sports betting parlor, a nightclub, a theater, and a comedy club; all elements subject to MBTA and Planning Board approval.
- Wynn Resorts, “Encore Boston Harbor,” presentation to the Georgia House of Representatives study committee on gaming, August 25, 2025, 51 slides. Slide 17 attributes to Mayor Carlo DeMaria the words “Whatever Wynn promises to do, they do it better than anyone else.” Slide 29, titled Project Facts, states “3,500 +/- permanent employees make Encore Boston Harbor one of the top employers in the state.” Copy on file with UNITE HERE Local 26.
- Everett City Council, regular meeting of May 11, 2026 (video) and hearing on Encore Boston Harbor of May 26, 2026 (video), Everett Community Television. Quotations transcribed from the recordings at the timestamps given.
- Massachusetts Gaming Commission, Encore Boston Harbor licensee page: “The Commonwealth receives 25% of gross gaming revenues”; $85 million license fee; host community agreement with Everett and surrounding community agreements with Boston, Cambridge, Malden, Medford, and Somerville.
- Casino.org, “Labor Day Was Born From Worker Protests. This Year, Encore Boston Harbor Unions Strike,” September 7, 2026: more than 1,300 UNITE HERE Local 26 and Teamsters Local 25 members went on strike on September 4, 2026, after their contract expired August 31; see also GBH News, Diane Adame and Diego Lopez, “Encore Boston Harbor casino workers go on strike as contract negotiations stall,” September 4, 2026.
- The Boston Globe, Karyna Cheung, “‘We’re here to win.’ Roughly 1,300 workers at Encore Boston Harbor launch strike at casino,” September 4, 2026, quoting Icylyn Whittaker, groundskeeper and Local 26 shop steward, at Encore since it opened, and David Hernandez, cocktail server, who lives in Everett and joined the casino five years ago.
- The Advocate, Neil Zolot, “Everett Officials Press Encore on Local Spending, Entertainment Before License Renewal,” June 4, 2026: the council renewed Encore’s innholder’s license on May 26, 2026, with Councillors Pietrantonio, Alcy Jabouin, and Capone dissenting; Matewsky quoted: “The people of Everett thought we’d get a bigger bang out of this. I thought we’d get more.”
- The Boston Globe, Jon Chesto, “Everett mayor Carlo DeMaria is on his way out. Will the city’s development boom follow?” November 6, 2025: two days before the election, Van Campen “posted a video of himself standing in front of the Encore casino, accusing DeMaria of being too lenient on Wynn in the original negotiations around the casino,” concluding “It’s time to elect a mayor who puts residents ahead of developers.”
- CommonWealth Beacon, Hallie Claflin, “Everett’s new mayor inherits major development projects,” January 26, 2026, quoting Mayor Van Campen on the Wynn agreement: “There are positives to this deal. There’s no question about that. But the question is now going to be implementation”; and CommonWealth Beacon, Hallie Claflin, “How incoming mayor Robert Van Campen will write Everett’s next chapter,” November 24, 2025: “I want Wynn and Encore to be successful, because if they are successful, the local economy here in Everett is successful, and the people of Everett have greater opportunities for jobs.”
- NBC Boston, “Encore Boston Harbor strike continues as workers keep picketing,” September 5, 2026, quoting Everett Mayor Robert J. Van Campen on the picket line on Saturday, September 5, 2026, and an Encore Boston Harbor statement that “union wages and benefits have increased 36.8% over the past four years, while revenue has grown 1.9%.”
- Boston 25 News, “Labor Day Strike: Encore Boston Harbor employees fight for better contract as negotiations stall,” September 7, 2026, quoting Lajla Lamadzema, a member of Encore’s 2019 opening crew.
- NBC Boston, Kaitlin McKinley Becker and Monica Madeja, “Encore Boston Harbor workers go on strike,” September 4, 2026, quoting Kathy Woodard, who has worked at Encore since it opened.
- Massachusetts Gaming Commission, “MGC Issues Decision and Order Regarding Suitability of Wynn Resorts and Wynn MA, LLC,” April 30, 2019, and the Decision and Order: $35 million fine on Wynn Resorts; $500,000 fine on CEO Matthew Maddox; independent monitor; separation of chair and CEO roles for the 15-year license term.
- U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of California, “Wynn Las Vegas forfeits $130 million for illegally conspiring with unlicensed money transmitting businesses,” September 6, 2024: forfeiture of $130,131,645 under a non-prosecution agreement.
- Georgia General Assembly, Senate Resolution 131 (2025–2026 session), proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing sports betting and casino gaming, a 20 percent tax on gross gaming income, a Georgia Gaming Commission, and at least eight casino licenses. Introduced February 4, 2025; defeated in the Senate Regulated Industries and Utilities Committee on February 27, 2025; dead at sine die, April 2, 2026. A constitutional amendment requires a two-thirds vote of each chamber before it can go to voters.
- Bisnow, “Wynn ‘Seriously Considering’ Multibillion-Dollar Casino If Georgia Legalizes Gambling,” August 25, 2025, reporting Christopher Gordon’s testimony to the Georgia House Study Committee on Gaming: Wynn is “seriously considering Georgia”; a Georgia casino could employ between 3,000 and 4,000 workers (reported speech, not a direct quote); “What you can’t dispute is the economic benefits”; Georgia could host a resort similar to Encore Boston Harbor, described as a $2.6 billion, 3.1-million-square-foot casino that hosted seven million visitors in 2024 and has paid more than $1 billion in gaming taxes to Massachusetts.
- Wynn Resorts, Form 8-K press release, February 15, 2022; sale completed December 1, 2022.
- Wynn Resorts Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025, leases note: initial base rent $100 million per year, 30-year term, rent rising 1.75% a year for the first ten years and at least 1.75% a year after that; 2026 lease payments including payments in lieu of taxes, $128.8 million.
- Wynn Resorts, second-quarter 2026 results, August 4, 2026: cumulative cash contributions to the Wynn Al Marjan Island joint venture of $1.06 billion; expected opening September 2027.
- Wynn Resorts Form 10-K filings, 2021–2025, capital expenditures by segment. Encore Boston Harbor: $38.7M (2021), $20.2M (2022), $70.6M (2023), $32.7M (2024), $26.9M (2025); $189.0 million over five years, $130.1 million over 2023–25. Investments in the Wynn Al Marjan Island joint venture, reported separately from capital expenditures: $563.4 million (2024) and $328.9 million (2025).
- Same filing and prior-year 10-K filings, Note 20 “Segment Information.” Encore Boston Harbor Adjusted Property EBITDAR: $257.4 million (2023), $247.1 million (2024), $236.7 million (2025); $741.2 million combined. For 2025: total operating revenues $846.9 million, cost of revenue $426.0 million, gaming taxes $184.2 million.
- Georgia Recorder, “House lawmakers overwhelmingly reject proposal to legalize sports betting in Georgia,” March 7, 2026 (Ross Williams): House Resolution 450, a constitutional amendment to let voters decide on legalizing sports betting, failed on the House floor on March 6, 2026, 63 to 98, short of the 120 votes required.
- Casino.org, “Georgia Casino Coalition Forms to Persuade Lawmakers to Legalize Gambling,” July 21, 2021 (Devin O’Connor): coalition members Wynn Resorts, Caesars Entertainment, Hard Rock International, Penn National Gaming, Bally’s Corporation, and Foxwoods Resort Casino; sites under discussion included the CNN Center, Centennial Yards, and Atlanta Motor Speedway.