Wynn bristles as Walsh files new lawsuit

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Wynn bristles as Walsh files new lawsuit
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Matt Stout

Mayor Martin J. Walsh insists the city’s new lawsuit against Wynn Resorts won’t stop the two sides from talking, but the contention drew a sharp rebuke from casino magnate Steve Wynn, whose chilly relationship with Walsh is showing no signs of thawing.

“If this is what the mayor believes a good working relationship should be, his experience is clearly different than ours,” Wynn Resorts spokesman Michael Weaver told the Herald in an email yesterday, a day after Walsh filed suit to halt the environmental certification the Baker administration approved last month for Wynn’s planned $1.7 billion casino in Everett.

“Last week, the Wynn team was called to a meeting by Mayor Walsh, a meeting which was publicly characterized by the mayor as ‘productive,’” Weaver said. “Yet, within days, the mayor decided to launch litigation directly against Wynn, in a highly critical, 41-page complaint full of unfounded accusations. It has become clear the mayor has decided that litigation is his way of being ‘productive.’”

Walsh’s latest challenge to Wynn’s plans hones in on traffic concerns in nearby Sullivan Square and what it called a flawed estimate of necessary parking spots the lawsuit contends will “log-jam city streets.” “We just don’t feel the numbers add up,” Walsh said yesterday, adding that he’s not intent on “heightening the rhetoric” even with the suit.

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If you have ever had the 'pleasure' of driving around Sullivan Square or Rutherford Avenue you will understand the traffic mess around that part of town.