
MGM’s $16 million was not a project equity investment.Whether you play casino games, surf the web, work on shared documents, or watch streaming videos, it’s important to know that your Mac or PC is completely secure before doing so. on Court Square, a long-awaited revamp of a vacant hotel facing City Hall. Instead, it put $16 million towards the $64 million redevelopment of housing and restaurant space at 13-31 Elm St. MGM said it would create 54 on-site apartments to help house its workforce.That adjustment was approved by the city and by U.S. Instead, after the business climate changed, it exercised a clause in its contract to pay $500,000 per year for 15 years to be used for Union Station improvements. MGM originally said it would rent space in Springfield’s Union Station.MGM said it would work to find a new shop or attraction for the Kringle space but the building– once the First Spiritualist Church, saved at the city’s insistence and relocated on rollers during construction – was flooded by a burst pipe this winter.


Hiring is in part up to the vagaries of the wider job market, but MGM continues to train dealers, advertise and host job fairs in Springfield. Today, it has 1,500 employees with about 200 vacant jobs and an informal expectation to grow to about 2,000 jobs. It hit that number briefly, soon after opening. MGM projected it would create 3,000 jobs.
