Alright. I have worked on a number of casions in the past including the MBS that you showed earlier.
You mention building a 2,000 room hotel and high scale casino, and then throw out $500m.
For a comparison. The Marina Bay Sands complex ( which is admittedly huge, on the order of 6,000,000 sf of development) cost anywhere from 3-5 billion with much cheaper labor than we have here.
The Palazzo in Vegas (2,000 rooms) was budgeted at about $1b, and ran up to approximately $2b when all was said and done.
The Sand's project in Bethlehem, PA was an approximately $900m job that only included a 300 room hotel to begin with.
All of these included massive shopping components as well.
The only reason I don't support this in the Seaport, is because it cannot possibly be done right down there. Not even due to incompetence, but because it physically cannot be done right.
2,000 rooms with a max buildable height of around 300' would take up too much space coupled with a large casino floor, and associated shopping, restaurants, etc. The parking would be subterranean, and the area is (or will be) well served by public transit and other means to mitigate horrible traffic.... MBS and the major high end casinos in Vegas are 500-600 feet tall. We can't do that, so yes it would kill the area due to sheer spacial requirements. Casinos and convention centers go together like peas and carrots, Vegas teaches us this, but a similar (or bigger) footprint next to the BCEC would be most terrible.
