美高梅国际度假村放弃在马萨诸塞州的小镇上建立度假式赌场的计划，并打算在马萨诸塞州的西部另寻合适的地理位置。

　　拉斯维加斯的博彩公司在周二发表一份声明表示，在马萨诸塞州小镇建设赌场容易引发多种并发症。该公司的首席营销官Hornbuckle说：“我们追求的是世界一流的度假式赌场，但这个小镇的基础设施薄弱，将来会极大地限制我们的发展。”

　　美高梅公司在1月份已经宣布与当地物业房地签署了合同，在波士顿以西约65公里的小镇购买了150亩未开发的土地。

　　美高梅公司将在该州西部寻找“其他潜在发展地盘”。但Hornbuckle声明目前尚未找到合适的地理位置。该公司还表示，没有高速公路的直接接入构成了“潜在赌场发展地盘”的主要障碍。

　　美高梅公司曾提议建设一条新的高速公路通往其他邻镇，但该提议没有得到相关官员们的支持和赞同。

　　在最近的一次采访中，美高梅度假村的公共事务高级副总裁艾伦·费尔德曼以及当地的居民都曾表示，如果赌场建成，可能会出现交通挤塞情况，小镇现有的城市结构也将会改变。

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　　MGM Resorts International is abandoning a plan to build a resort-style casino in Brimfield and will seek an alternative location in western Massachusetts.

　　The Las Vegas casino company indicated in a statement Tuesday that there were too many complications to pursuing the project in the small, largely rural community.

　　"The unique nature of MGM's plans for an all-inclusive world-class resort of the Brimfield site, and our growing understanding of the needed scope for its infrastructure, simply do not allow us to pursue the comprehensive MGM resort originally envisioned here," said Bill Hornbuckle, the company's chief marketing officer.

　　The company, which owns several luxury casinos on the Las Vegas strip, announced in January that it had signed a contract with Rolling Hills Estates Realty Trust to buy 150 acres of undeveloped land in the town about 65 miles west of Boston.

　　MGM would pursue "other potential development sites" in the western part of the state, Hornbuckle said, but the statement did not identify any of other possible locations. The company said for now it would continue to work out of an office it had established in Brimfield.

　　The site that had been chosen in the town was adjacent to the Massachusetts Turnpike but had no direct access from the highway, a fact that posed a potentially major obstacle to development of the casino.

　　Without direct access from the turnpike, traffic leading to the site would have to travel several miles along Route 20, the main thoroughfare through the town which at times narrows down to just one lane in each direction.

　　MGM had proposed funding construction of a new turnpike interchange and access road in the neighboring town of Warren, between existing Exits 8 and 9 on the highway, and officials had said the project could not proceed without that new road. The new exit, however, could have taken a number of years to be approved and built.

　　In a recent interview, Alan Feldman, senior vice president for public affairs for MGM Resorts, said residents had expressed reservations about possible traffic congestion if the casino was built as well as concerns about bright lights that might come from a facility that would easily dwarf any other existing structure in the town.