Casinos Proposed for Michigan Fairgrounds

As reported by the Detroit Free Press: "The shovels are busy at MGM Grand Detroit Casino 's permanent site while a group of businessmen suggested Monday that the city's three casinos ought to build at the state fairgrounds as part of a massive entertainment area.

"'I'm saying stop it. These are terrible locations,' Professor William Thompson of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said of the permanent casino locations spread out from one end of downtown to the other.

"…Thompson, in a speech to the Detroit City Council, said that if Detroit followed Las Vegas' example of clustering its casinos together, it could boost traffic at all three.

"…The casinos are in various stages of proceeding with permanent complexes to include 400-room hotels, 100,000 square feet of gaming space, conference space, restaurants and theaters. MotorCity Casino at the Lodge Freeway and Grand River expects to break ground soon. Greektown Casino goes before the Michigan Gaming Control Board today for approval of its financing to build a permanent facility in Greektown…"