It’s a $2.6 billion housing chicken-or-egg question.

Industrial Everett wasn’t exactly a development hot spot before 2014, when the Massachusetts Gaming Commission cleared the way for Wynn Resorts’ Encore Boston Harbor — a multibillion-dollar, 33-acre casino resort just steps from the Costco-anchored Gateway Center (a different kind of development icon, some would argue).

Encore opened in 2019 along the Mystic River, and five years later, the surrounding city doesn’t quite resemble the same blue-collar enclave of yesteryear. The gaming mecca may not have single-handedly reinvented Everett, but it did accelerate a redevelopment boom that now stretches from the chiming slot machines of Encore to the gritty edges of the Commercial Triangle , a roughly 100-acre swath of former scrapyar

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