I just lifted this off the wire.
Oct. 2, 2007, 11:08AM MGM
By JEFF KAROUB AP Business Writer
© 2007 The Associated Press
DETROIT — Casino officials and celebrity chefs showed off $800 million worth of Las Vegas glitz amid Motown grit Tuesday _ hours before MGM Grand Detroit was to open to the public 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 a 17-story hotel with electronic concierges in each room. It sits a block from the temporary casino it opened it 1999.
Celebrity chefs Wolfgang Puck and Michael Mina will operate three restaurants in the new facility.
The MGM Grand Detroit was to open to the public before midnight with fireworks.
Jim Murren, president and chief operating officer of MGM Mirage Inc., said the facility is not only a casino and hotel, but an "entertainment destination."
Detroit's other two casinos are working to complete their permanent sites.
Greektown Casino is spending $475 million to expand its existing facility and a 20-story hotel opens next year. MotorCity Casino is spending $275 million on a 17-story hotel to open later this fall.
The casinos are spending $1.5 billion to build sleek new hotels that are adding 1,200 luxury rooms and thousands of square feet of convention space. The three permanent sites will feature more than 220 tables and about 8,000 slots in 250,000 square feet of gaming space.
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