LITTLETON — Three years after presenting his proposal for a casino in the building that currently houses the Staples office supply store, a Chicago-based casino developer has purchased the Staples property at 804 Meadow St.
Also through his newly formed LLC registered on Feb. 6, 2026 with the New Hampshire Secretary of State, Greg Carlin, who previously created G2 Gaming LLC for his New Hampshire ventures and who formed the new GSG Littleton Propco LLC for his Littleton property acquisitions, purchased from King Covey, on Feb. 27, the nearby building at 758 Meadow St. that until last year housed Tire Warehouse.
According to the Grafton County Registry of Deeds, the Staples property was sold on Feb. 18 by Waterstone NH Retail Properties to Carlin.
That property, which includes other buildings at 780-804 Meadow St., had an asking price of $8.75 million, which was also the transaction price, according to the New Hampshire Registry Review. According to town property records, the total appraised value is $6.614 million.
The 758 Meadow St. property is assessed at $1.493 million. According to the registry review, the transaction price was $1.535 million.
In May 2023, Carlin visited Littleton to present to residents his proposal for a mixed-use casino in the 23,000-square-foot Staples building, which would feature historical horse racing (HHR) machines, which are similar to slot machines, and table games, such as blackjack and roulette.
Of the 100 residents turning out to the listening session, the vast majority were in opposition and cited concerns such as increased traffic, crime, gambling addiction among local residents, business being siphoned off from local restaurants, and a type of enterprise that doesn’t fit the character of the town.
Carlin’s plan for Littleton, called Granite State Gaming and Hospitality, is to offer 150 to 200 historical horse racing machines, which are allowed under a 2021 New Hampshire law, about 15 table games, and a pub-style restaurant and bar.
At the 2023 presentation, Carlin said the proposal for Littleton came about after the New Hampshire Legislature approved HHR machines, which he said “changed the gaming landscape in New Hampshire.”
It was the Massachusetts-based Waterstone Properties Group that reached out to him, he said.
Because casinos qualify as a commercial business and Carlin’s would be located a commercial zone, local approvals appear to not be needed, but the project might need wetlands approvals for any additional parking spaces because of wetlands behind the building.
The Staples parking lot currently has 115 spaces. Carlin said he expects a need for about 300 spaces, equating to 185 new spaces.
A former CEO of Rush Street Gaming, Carlin has overseen the development of seven mixed-use casinos in North America.
A casino in Littleton, he said at the time of his presentation, would create 50 to 60 full-time jobs.
Under New Hampshire law, for table games (or games of chance), the casino operator keeps 55 percent of gross revenue, with 35 percent going to charitable nonprofits and 10 percent to state taxes.
For HHR machines, the operator keeps 75 percent of gross revenue, with 8.75 percent going to nonprofits and 16.25 percent to state taxes.
Under current law, a casino is limited to 30 percent of its active gaming space set aside for games of chance and 70 percent for HHR machines, which use a database of about 10,000 past horse races to select several races from that pool to determine the outcome.
In 2024, the New Hampshire Legislature approved a 7-year moratorium on issuing new HHR machine licenses. It expires after June 2031. The rationale for the pause is to give the state time to study the impact of HHR machines on charities and charitable gaming.
During Littleton’s annual town vote on March 10, 2026, some two weeks after Carlin’s property purchases, residents voted 610-449 to approve a petition to prohibit casinos in town, which is allowed through a new state law that gives towns a local option.
Because Carlin’s proposal is already in the pipeline and his application has been submitted, his Littleton casino would not be included in the ban, which only applies to future casino proposals.
On Tuesday, Carlin’s short-term and long-term plans for his new Littleton properties were undetermined, and a voicemail left with the Chicago-based telephone number listed with his New Hampshire LLC did not receive a response as of press time.
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