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The MGM Grand Detroit in Detroit, Michigan is one of three casino resort hotels in the city, and one of four in the Detroit–Windsor area. The luxury resort hotel opened on October 3, 2007 with a grand event which included models and celebrities including Ashanti, Kid Rock, male model Cameron Gonzalez, photographer Alex Martinez, Tiffany Braco, Detroit socialites, and fireworks. This is the first luxury casino resort hotel in a major metropolis outside of Las Vegas. Detroit is one of the largest American cities and metropolitan regions to offer casino resort hotels.
In November 1996, Michigan voters approved Proposal E, which authorized three casinos to be built and operated in the City of Detroit. Following a bidding process, Las Vegas based MGM MIRAGE and Partners Detroit, LLC (formed by a group of local Detroit business investors), built the first new casino. The MGM Grand Detroit Casino officially opened on July 29, 1999 to much fanfare.
In 2005, the MGM Grand Detroit Casino was the subject of a possible sale when parent company MGM MIRAGE announced that it was acquiring rival casino company Mandalay Resort Group, owners of the MotorCity Casino. Due to Michigan state gaming laws prohibiting casino owners from acquiring or owning more than one casino in the state, MGM Mirage was forced to sell either the MGM Grand Detroit or the MotorCity casino. MGM MIRAGE had several serious buyers for the MGM Grand Detroit, but ultimately sold the MotorCity Casino to Marian Ilitch.
Detroit ( /diˈtrɔɪt/) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan, and the seat of Wayne County. It is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people, and serves as a major port on the Detroit River connecting the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. It was founded on July 24, 1701, by the French explorer, adventurer, and nobleman Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac.
In 2010, the city had a population of 713,777 and ranked as the 18th most populous city in the United States. The name Detroit sometimes refers to the Metro Detroit area with a population of 4,296,250 for the six-county Metropolitan Statistical Area, the United States' eleventh-largest, and a population of 5,218,852 for the nine-county Combined Statistical Area as of the 2010 Census. The Detroit–Windsor area, a critical commercial link straddling the Canada–U.S. border, has a total population of about 5,700,000.
Known as the world's traditional automotive center, "Detroit" is a metonym for the American automobile industry and an important source of popular music legacies celebrated by the city's two familiar nicknames, the Motor City and Motown. Other nicknames arose in the 20th century, including City of Champions beginning in the 1930s for its successes in individual and team sport,The D, D-Town, Hockeytown (a trademark owned by the city's NHL club, the Red Wings), Rock City (after the Kiss song "Detroit Rock City"), and The 313 (its telephone area code) Detroit became known as the "great arsenal of democracy" for its support of the U.S. role among the Allied powers during World War II.
MGM Grand may refer to:
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Other uses:
There’s a world of people dying out there
Many of them on the east side
I never staked a claim with the rich folks
Though I am one
The New York, New York casino waves
As I fly towards Las Vegas
I gambled ten dollars there once
Cause it’s all I had
The MGM Grand
Could steal the heart of a man
But the one next to me
Gives me mine back again
The stewardess says, “Good morning
And welcome to Southwest Airlines
This morning we’ll be offering
Your choice of juice or coffee”
And a man with an accent in 19B
He’s confused, he pleads for a cup of tea
She’s mad but brings it because she must
And his thank you, it melts all of us
The MGM Grand
Could steal the heart of a man
But the one next to me
Gives me mine back again
I fly away from my beloved
He says our honeymoon period has ended
And somewhere through the tears
I ponder o’er the years
That taught me so much
And so little
“Excuse me miss, are you a writer
I’d like to get your autograph now
If you’ll be famous”
Then he said, “I live in San Francisco
And I work for the immigration office
Of the United States government
I’m going to visit my brother in Las Vegas”
Our plane descends into the desert
I pretend that I am weightless
There’s glitter and there’s glare
On the landscape
And there’s a world of people dying out there
Many of them on the east side
I never staked a claim with the rich folks
Though I am one