We're stopping them and we're trying to increase our communication around that," Mathis told the commission. "We definitely still have some folks that are getting onto the floor that are underage. "I think it's largely because of the nature of the resort, which is a very mixed-use, downtown, porous design."īut that porous design - which includes an open-air plaza, retail shopping center, a soon-to-open movie theater and restaurants in addition to the gaming area - has also led to a problem with people under the legal gambling age of 21 accessing the gaming floor. "We expect some of those numbers to normalize but there is no question that there is tremendous interest in our resort," Mathis said. ![]() Michael Mathis, president and COO of MGM Springfield, told the Massachusetts Gaming Commission that the resort casino is attracting about 50,000 visitors on weekend days and about 25,000 visitors on weekdays - well above the company's estimate of between 15,000 and 20,000 guests per day. But casino executives told Massachusetts gaming regulators Thursday they are running into an issue with minors on the gaming floor. The volume of people who have visited MGM Springfield since it opened three weeks ago has well exceeded the gaming company's estimates.
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