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News Brief: Greektown Casino received final approval Tuesday for its permanent $200 million casino/hotel/entertainment complex.

News Brief: The Michigan Gaming control Board voted 4-1 in a special meeting to rewrite its rules concerning Greektown Casino’s $8.7 million complimentary meal program.

News Brief: Some Detroit restaurants were served another delay Tuesday in their efforts to be reinstated in Greektown Casino's $8.7-million complimentary meal program.

Construction began today on the permanent Greektown Casino resort, with completion of the new 3,100-space parking garage scheduled for mid 2007 and the new 400-room hotel and gaming floor expansion by mid 2008.

News Brief: While MGM Grand Detroit and MotorCity casinos are working furiously to build lavish new permanent hotel-gaming complexes, Greektown Casino remains tangled in red tape that has prevented it from placing its first shovel in the ground.

News Brief: Greektown Casino led Detroit casinos in revenue growth for March, registering a 14.6% rise, the Michigan Gaming Control Board reports.

News Brief: Greektown Casino completed its purchase Friday of a city-owned parking garage for $32 million after 6-1 approval by the Detroit City Council.

News Brief: Greektown Casino plans to build its 20-story, 400-room hotel atop the 13-story parking garage proposed to replace the city’s Foster-Winter garage on Monroe Street.

The Michigan Gaming Control Board has approved a $200-million financing package for the development of Greektown Casino's permanent hotel-casino resort.

In celebration of its fifth anniversary, Greektown Casino is opening a new 630-space valet parking garage, improving valet parking service at Detroit's "Best Casino."

News Brief: Greektown Casino's proposal to stay in its temporary location doesn't sit well with Darlene Williamson or hundreds of other low-income residents of Parkwycke Towers Apartments, which will be bulldozed early next year to make way for a 3,500-space parking garage.

News Brief: Don H. Barden finally owns a piece of Detroit's $1.18-billion casino market, eight years after being rebuffed in his bid for one of three original casino licenses. But he is not happy with having a 1% stake in the Greektown Casino and wants to buy out the majority owner.

News Brief: Greektown Casino has abandoned plans to build a permanent casino at Gratiot and I-375 and instead will stay in the bustling Greektown district, where it also plans a 400-room hotel and parking structure.

News Brief: MGM Grand Detroit Casino L.L.C. and Greektown Casino L.L.C. reported revenue increases for July, while MotorCity Casino L.L.C. revenue was 4 percent behind 2004 for July and nearly 1 percent off the year to date.

News Brief: Greektown Casino will ask state gaming regulators to approve a $635-million financing package next month that would include $200 million for a permanent casino, about half of what it said last year it would spend to build a glittering gambling complex near Ford Field.

News Brief: Two Detroit casinos have pocketed about $650,000 since 2003 in winnings that forgetful gamblers neglected to claim before they expired.

Two of the city's three casinos saw revenue fall last month, but the local industry still brought in slightly more cash than last year, thanks to a good month at MGM Grand Detroit.

News Brief: Detroit's three casinos raked in more than $1.18 billion in 2004, a 5.2-percent increase, with both MGM Grand Detroit and MotorCity increasing revenues while Greektown lost some ground.

News Brief: Chairman Aaron Payment of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and Marvin Beatty of the Greektown Casino Management Board have been named acting Chief Executive Officers of Greektown Casino.

News Brief: Sure, gamblers leave behind plenty of cash wagering in Detroit's three casinos, but dentures, wheelchairs and shoes?