MGM Grand Detroit Casino News - Page 9

News Brief: The MGM Grand Detroit Casino gave away more than 83,000 meals last year to Gleaners Community Food Bank of Metro Detroit for distribution to the poor.

News Brief: About 1,500 other women of a certain age converged on MGM Grand casino Monday for Red Hat Day, a party celebrating the over-50 women's group spreading like a red and purple virus across the country.

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: The Michigan Gaming Control Board still hasn't received an application to transfer ownership in either MGM Grand casino or MotorCity Casino, but one is expected by week's end, the board's executive director said Monday.

News Brief: The Michigan Gaming Control Board will likely consider the sale of either MotorCity Casino or MGM Grand Detroit Casino at its March 8 meeting, the board's executive director said Thursday.

Attorneys for the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians filed notice today that it will seek to enjoin MGM Grand Detroit from selling its casino franchise.

News Brief: The soon-to-be-merged gaming giants MGM Mirage and Mandalay Resort Group says it has received about a half dozen offers for one of its two area casinos and expects to sell one before the end of the first quarter.

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: The Las Vegas Sands Corp. is likely to face stiff competition in any attempt to purchase the MGM Grand Detroit Casino and build a new casino, hotel and convention center in Detroit.

News Brief: A former French food manager at the MGM Grand Detroit Casino has filed a federal lawsuit charging the casino with operating a hostile anti-French workplace environment and firing him for opposing discriminatory practices against African-Americans.

News Brief: Norman Dillard, Dee Dee Odom and Jovita Thomas-Williams have returned home to Detroit as high-ranking managers at MGM Grand Detroit Casino and hope to be a part of the revitalization of their hometown.

In a quest to complete its proposed $7.9 billion acquisition of the Mandalay Resort Group during the first quarter of 2005, MGM Mirage plans to sell its Detroit casino and keep that city's Mandalay-owned casino.

MGM Mirage said today it may sell its MGM Grand casino in Detroit after receiving several offers from potential buyers.

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

News Brief: The owners of Detroit's MGM Grand Casino and Soaring Eagle in Mt. Pleasant have spent nearly $7 million in the opening rounds of the campaign to win voter approval of a constitutional amendment to limit the expansion of gambling in Michigan.

The MGM Grand Detroit Casino said Tuesday that it is laying off 150 workers because of an increase in Michigan's casino tax from 18 percent to 24 percent.

News Brief: Executives of the MGM Grand Detroit Casino have warned the majority owners of Greektown Casino that they will sue if plans to develop a $350 million casino in Romulus are not dropped.

News Brief: It's easier than ever to get a piece of the action, albeit a small one, now that all three of the city's casinos offer slot machines that can be played for a penny.

News Brief: Under a court-approved settlement, MotorCity Casino and Greektown Casino will pay $79 million to the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians.