Encore is a nice upscale hotel to stay at when visiting Boston with upscale dining, high profile rooms, luxury shopping, a club, ballroom, gambling floor etc. Plus it will tie into Assembly, which imo is beneficial to both the casino and Assembly/Somerville.Īssembly should see MUCH more foot traffic from casino patrons who want to get out of the building and walk around, go to a restaurant, mingle, catch a movie, or even visit lego land etc. It means you can also easily walk there from Somerville.

Not only does it become transit accessible which is HUGE, but there will be less traffic on city streets too when people can take the exit off 93 right into Assembly and use one of the billion parking garages/parking lots there that have tons of capacity. ^ Wow great news, that was a major missing link that was going to be a disaster if nothing was built.