Michigan News - Page 39

Chefs Wolfgang Puck and Michael Mina each have announced the culinary teams for their restaurants inside MGM Grand Detroit, slated to open October 2, 2007.

News Brief: Michigan racetracks are reviving a quest to have slot machines, in a move that could provide Michigan with new revenue to help solve its budget problems.

News Brief: For about 36 hours leading up to the opening of the new MGM Grand Detroit on Oct. 2, the gaming company's temporary casino will go dark.

News Brief: Fred Paquin will be the new chairman of Greektown Casino.

News Brief: Michigan's Indian gaming industry is poised for considerable growth with the opening of the $400 million Four Winds Casino Resort in New Buffalo and two more casinos moving toward reality in southwest Michigan.

News Brief: A new study led by a Central Michigan University professor shows that outstate Michigan casinos have an impact beyond the counties where the casinos are located.

News Brief: The surprise announcement by Magna Entertainment that they would not build a $100 million racetrack in the city of Romulus, Michigan, has left officials with one question: What’s next?

News Brief: Aaron Payment, who has been chairman of the Greektown Casino Board of Directors since 2004, has been replaced by Fred Paquin, a member of the tribal board of directors and Sault Tribal Police Chief.

News Brief: Leaders of 23 Is Enough and the Michigan Gambling Opposition hope to have enough votes to stop a compact with the Gun Lake Band of Pottawatomi Indians.

Lakes Entertainment, Inc. reports the successful grand opening of the Four Winds Casino Resort in New Buffalo, Michigan which occurred on Thursday, August 2nd.

Four Winds Casino Resort, in New Buffalo, Michigan, opened the world's largest automated poker room today, running exclusively on PokerTek poker tables.

MGM Grand Detroit today announced that it will open its more than $800 million hotel and entertainment destination on October 2 raising Detroit's luxury hospitality offerings to unparalleled heights.

News Brief: U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, who had been neutral on the issue of a casino in Port Huron, Michigan, has switched course and thrown his support behind a proposed casino at the Thomas Edison Inn.

News Brief: The Four Winds Casino Resort is to open today for news media tours and to the public at noon Thursday just off Exit 1 of I-94 near New Buffalo.

News Brief: When Four Winds Casino opens its doors to the public in Michigan, nearby Northwest Indiana casinos will feel at least a temporary hit, a state the casinos are anticipating and planning against.

News Brief: Now, after 13 years, is the Four Winds Casino Resort a reality.

The Sault Tribe has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction from the U.S District Court,to allowed the tribe to conduct gaming on the main casino floor of the new Kewadin Shores Casino in St. Ignace,Michigan.

New Brief: A gaming compact Governor Jennifer Granholm negotiated with an Allegan County Native American tribe could receive House approval as early as today.

News Brief: Members of the House of Representatives introduced a resolution Thursday that could lead to legislative approval of Gun Lake Band of Pottawatomi plans for a Wayland Township casino.

MGM Grand Detroit is now accepting bookings for its 30,000 square feet of luxury meeting and convention space, set to open with the hotel this fall.