After a one month delay, the MotorCity Casino Hotel will officially open to the public Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at 3:00pm. Even after the one month delay, the casino is billing Wednesday's opening as a "soft opening," as portions of the hotel remain under construction.
It is interesting how much more excitement and press coverage the MGM Grand Detroit opening generated. MotorCity's phased-in openings of new casino spaces and the hotel has spread the publicity for the MotorCity out over several time periods. One school of thought is that the big bang of publicity MGM Grand received was more worthwhile. However, perhaps the constant drip, drip, drip of news from MotorCity will keep the venue in the gamblers' minds more often.
I suppose the Deceber 2008 monthly revenue report will tell the real story.
UPDATE: The Detroit News has a story posted after a tour of the hotel, which is largely positive.
UPDATE 2: The Free Press now has its story of the hotel tour posted. The story also gives a deadline of the end of March, 2008, for the opening of all remaining renovated gaming areas.
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