Encore Boston Harbor Casino | 1 Broadway | Everett

You all need to try Top Golf. Its fantastic.

This coming from someone whos only other golf experience was minigolf
 
jass said:
You all need to try Top Golf. Its fantastic.

This coming from someone whos only other golf experience was minigolf
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I can see that too, especially next to a casino, and in an area they want to turn into an entertainment district in the long term. I've been to Top Golf a couple times while at conferences in Vegas. I don't care about golf either (have never played) and would have never gone had I not been convinced by vendors paying for it all -- but Top Golf was still a good time, even though I barely played and mainly just watched people who knew what they were doing hitting balls into the night sky. They also do some battle of the bands thing. Space-wise, it's just a more expansive driving range, not a full golf course, so it would fit in many possible lots. You tee-off while still (sort-of) indoors, so it probably still works in winter, albeit wasting heat (then again, the Vegas location wastes A/C in the same way).
 
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George_Apley said:
Can we just agree to stop building new golf courses. FFS.
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This. It represents a lot of things that make my skin crawl. It also wastes water in dry states, and is a complete waste of land in a place like this.
 
In other news, the expected chaotic traffic jams have so far failed to materialize. Obviously have to wait for it's first weekday and weekend test but I don't think morning Rush hour is prime gambling time so I don't see weekdays being an issue.
 
Jouhou said:
This. It represents a lot of things that make my skin crawl. It also wastes water in dry states, and is a complete waste of land in a place like this.
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MA isn’t exactly a dry state, and we’re not so small that we can’t afford to spare open land.
 
HelloBostonHi said:
In other news, the expected chaotic traffic jams have so far failed to materialize. Obviously have to wait for it's first weekday and weekend test but I don't think morning Rush hour is prime gambling time so I don't see weekdays being an issue.
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You don't know many hardcore gamblers, do ya? :p
 
Yeah, traffic was no different than any other Sunday. Very pleased to see that people actually did take alternative transportation to the casino. All the major "Wynn for All" intersections (Wellington Circle, Santilli Circle, Sweetser Circle, Sullivan Square, etc) had police details monitoring traffic flow and it was all good from what I could tell. While timid, the Wynn for All improvements actually did help. I saw a lot of people walking to the casino too.
 
The traffic from Wynn is overblown. Assembly will still probably have more daily users, when it's built out. But I don't hear the same outroar about Assembly.
 
shmessy said:
You don't know many hardcore gamblers, do ya? :p
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Don't confuse the hardcore's outsized per capita, per week, or per dollar devotion to gambling with their ability to create traffic per lane mile at rush hour.

Look at the Google "busy times" bar graph for any urban casino and you will see that there are not significant changes in usage at weekday rush hours (neither in-rush nor out-rush). Just a long gradual build to a 10 pm ~ 11pm peak occupancy and then a strong net outflow which might have created a traffic jam except that local roads are plenty empty enough 10pm to 2am to handle it (particularly since there isn't a last buzzer/out to send everyone home at once)

Waaay upthread we also ascertained that the staff ,shift-changes are at something like 6am, 2pm and 10pm, and the biggest days were weekends.

I think we will see locally heavy traffic at 8pm Friday and 5pm Saturday (when there is already a busy "home after shopping and before dinner" rush that might be occasionally tipped into a noticable "jam"

Tysmith95 is right: assembly, with its residents going out to work and it's "Partners & Puma" set coming in is going to be a far more powerful rush-jammer 250 days a year, (plus Xmas shopping)
 
tangent said:
I would have thought your clubbing days ended 4,398 posts ago.
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I was never a clubber. But I do end up at a club 1-2 times a year because a friend (or my gfs friend) celebrates their bday at one.

Closing at 2am is lame sausage.

New Jersey is a 2am state like MA, but clubs in Atlantic City casinos do run until 4am.
 
Here's a development related question: Has anyone confirmed whether the path between Encore's harborwalk and the paths alongside the Gateway Center (Costco, etc.) have been connected? I haven't been over yet but wanted to add that to my biking and running routes.
 
kjdonovan said:
Here's a development related question: Has anyone confirmed whether the path between Encore's harborwalk and the paths alongside the Gateway Center (Costco, etc.) have been connected? I haven't been over yet but wanted to add that to my biking and running routes.
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I haven't been over there yet, but the pictures from yesterday seemed to show that the connection was complete and open.
 
kjdonovan said:
Here's a development related question: Has anyone confirmed whether the path between Encore's harborwalk and the paths alongside the Gateway Center (Costco, etc.) have been connected? I haven't been over yet but wanted to add that to my biking and running routes.
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Yes, it's connected. I've been walking it for the last couple months. Yesterday was the first day the Encore property removed the fence separating the newly-created path linking both sides of the commuter rail bridge. There's also a discretely-placed Blue Bikes station on the Encore property closest to the commuter rail bridge.

It will tie together brilliantly with points north and west when the pedestrian bridge to Assembly Row is completed the next few years.

I took a time lapse video Saturday evening and just posted on Flickr. If you click the image, you can watch it from flickr.

Encore Boston Harbor path from Gateway Center by Derek Shooster, on Flickr
 
dshoost88 said:
Yes, it's connected. I've been walking it for the last couple months. Yesterday was the first day the Encore property removed the fence separating the newly-created path linking both sides of the commuter rail bridge. There's also a discretely-placed Blue Bikes station on the Encore property closest to the commuter rail bridge.

It will tie together brilliantly with points north and west when the pedestrian bridge to Assembly Row is completed the next few years.

I took a time lapse video Saturday evening and just posted on Flickr. If you click the image, you can watch it from flickr.

Encore Boston Harbor path from Gateway Center by Derek Shooster, on Flickr
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Awwwwesome. And the video is great.
 
dshoost88 said:
Yes, it's connected. I've been walking it for the last couple months. Yesterday was the first day the Encore property removed the fence separating the newly-created path linking both sides of the commuter rail bridge. There's also a discretely-placed Blue Bikes station on the Encore property closest to the commuter rail bridge.

It will tie together brilliantly with points north and west when the pedestrian bridge to Assembly Row is completed the next few years.
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I see 11 stations in Everett....I believe theyre all new. The one at the casino is only 15 docks though, which is dumb.

https://member.bluebikes.com/map/

Edit: Looks like the plan is for 12 stations

https://www.bluebikes.com/blog/new-...e=App&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=Everett
 
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