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I played golf with a few friends who work for Massport and Shawmut, they all said Wynn is having a major impact on their ability to get subcontractors for their projects
 
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I wish this casino was built in 2009, not 2016 when construction is booming.
 
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Gee, I wonder if this casino is going to eat into that $88 million in additional tax revenue the Yes on 1 proponents are promising us?
 
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workers were in tyvek suits today
 
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Apparently the slurry wall is done according to Bldup:

https://twitter.com/BLDUP/status/795585841338925056

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Drove by quickly yesterday and apparently they are rebuilding that McDonalds? It will be shifted over towards Grainger and on a smaller footprint. Saw a rendering on a sign briefly and it looks like a two story restaurant?
 
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statler said:
Drove by quickly yesterday and apparently they are rebuilding that McDonalds? It will be shifted over towards Grainger and on a smaller footprint. Saw a rendering on a sign briefly and it looks like a two story restaurant?
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The old one was already pretty damn small...about 40' x 100'. Definitely way too much asphalt. 70 spaces was probably quite a bit greater than the max. building occupancy. Have to wonder if this is the third McD's to be built on that site, and they just keep getting more compact each time.
 
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Dear F-Line-Dudley,

You really believe that the current traffic infrastructure can handle this Development in this location. I respect and read a lot of your thoughts but I have to disagree with you on this- I believe this is the Nuclear bomb to our transit problem when this is built for getting into and out of Boston.

I pray I'm wrong--every night on this.

-Rifle-
 
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TheRifleman said:
Dear F-Line-Dudley,

You really believe that the current traffic infrastructure can handle this Development in this location. I respect and read a lot of your thoughts but I have to disagree with you on this- I believe this is the Nuclear bomb to our transit problem when this is built for getting into and out of Boston.

I pray I'm wrong--every night on this.

-Rifle-
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Normal people don't gamble 9-5. Tourists come to Boston in summer, students/office workers vacation in summer. How the hell could this be a nuke to Boston's transit problem?
 
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cbrett said:
Normal people don't gamble 9-5. Tourists come to Boston in summer, students/office workers vacation in summer. How the hell could this be a nuke to Boston's transit problem?
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And, Cbrett, here's proof which Rife should click on. goo.gl/w2MmxJ from which to see Google's page for each of the "urban casinos" in the Philly area. Click on each link down the left side to see a bar chart of when each is busy. In all cases, Google says, the typical visit is 1 to 3 hours and happens in a gentle wave that peaks at 9pm.
  • We've already explained over and over to Rife that leisure trips look like Saturday and Sunday traffic: moving something like two times the number trips than the weekday rush, but spread evenly and bogging down rarely.
  • We've explained that Boston road rushes unjam from July 1st to Sept 1st as local commuters suspend driving to work and withdraw their commuter car from circulation, to be replaced by tourists on more leisurely and car-lite itineraries
  • We've also covered that casinos have no tip-off or final buzzer gathering visitors into arrival/departure rushes. That the Casino holds (at peak) about as many as the TD Garden, except that casino people trickle in and trickle out, unlike sports crowds.
  • We've also explained that casino employee shifts are also not 9-to-5, but rather more like hospital shifts (3pm - 11 pm - 7 am), with a sprinkling of hotel shifts (foodservice at 5am ~ 1pm, room service 11am - 4pm)

So God has answered Rife's prayers and he can't see it.
 
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People have been talking about the Wynn Casino on a few threads lately like it's the Big Dig 2.0... Yes, there will be a bunch of people working here between now and 2019, but Wynn is only one project of MANY in the Greater Boston area. You can't blame any supposed "shortage of construction workers" on Wynn.

From Wynn Casino President Robert DiSalvio in August:

Robert DiSalvio said:
Right now [August, 2016] we're starting with about 250 trades folks out on the site. That will grow to 500 by the end of this year [2016], and then next year it's gonna ramp up heavily 'til we get to the point where we are about 2,000, maximum, at any one time on the job, and over the life of the thirty-four months of construction about 4,000 construction workers will participate in the process.
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Meanwhile, from Catherine Carlock in the BBJ in April:

BBJ said:
For the third month running, employment in Greater Boston’s construction trades industry grew by 10 percent.

A metro-by-metro report released Wednesday by the Associated General Contractors of America shows that the Boston, Cambridge and Newton metropolitan area added 5,500 construction, mining and logging jobs in March compared to the year prior. That’s a 10 percent increase year-over-year, with the area reaching a total of 62,200 construction trades workers compared to 56,700 the year prior.
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And from the Census Bureau, there were 117.6k "Mining, Logging, and Construction" jobs in the Boston MSA in September, down 2.5k from the previous month but up from 99.5k last winter.

So even if construction employment at Wynn matches all the estimates touted by the management team, there will still be fewer construction workers employed at the site, in total, then were added to the Boston-Cambridge-Newton economy in the last twelve months. And total employment at Wynn will be significantly less than the seasonal adjustment effect in overall metro construction employment.

Yes, Wynn will employ a bunch of people (which is a GOOD thing) and this will apply marginal pressure on the construction sector (again, a GOOD thing), but it's not going to fundamentally change the nature of construction employment and worker availability in Greater Boston.
 
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JumboBuc -- I agree that the impact on the overall labor is not huge. A far larger impact is probably construction equipment and specialized construction skills and specialized materials. Anytime you drop $2.1B on a project that's going to have an impact.

Remember that overall the Casino is 4th largest project in Boston -- only: the Big Dig, MWRA Deer Island, etc., Logan rebuild put more total $'s into one construction project in Boston.

In terms of the density of the $ being spent only the Logan rebuild over the past two decades is comparable as the others covered a whole lot more area. When you compress all that spending into the short time frame of the Cassino -- Yea it will definitely have an impact especially on luxury residences. I'll bet Wynn will take a lot of marble and marble masons out of circulation.
 
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^ Exactly -- word is that Wynn is paying top $ to ensure the speciality trades are on call as needed, so as not to delay the project. That definitely impacts their availability for other projects. It also means that other projects, without tenants or firm opening dates, may bide their time to avoid a bidding war for the trade talent.
 
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Jahvon09 said:
Kind of almost reminds me of the one in New York that is used for the World Trade Center, :cool:
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Yes: both are big "bathub" foundations cut from landfill.
 
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I want lots and lots of photos from the construction so I can properly plan my Ocean's 11 job. :)
 
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^^^ That is hilarious. This is a massive "tub" of a foundation. Will the foundation pour be a conveyor belt of concrete trucks or will this take a lot of time?
 
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I apologize, but I am too lazy to go back to find the completion date. When are we supposed to see delivery of this casino?
 
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