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October 5, 2007

Luxury casino-hotel opens in Detroit

By JEFF KAROUB
AP Business Writer

DETROIT — Casino officials and celebrity chefs showed off $800 million worth of Las Vegas glitz amid Motown grit Tuesday as the MGM Grand Detroit made its public debut with a flashy, fireworks-studded gala.

Billed as the first Vegas-style resort built in a major metropolitan area, MGM Grand includes 400 rooms and suites, a full-service resort spa and an 18-story hotel with electronic concierges in each room. It sits a block from the temporary casino it opened in 1999.


 
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