Alliance urges Detroit to rebid casino licenses - 2004-02-17
The Community Coalition, which ran an unsuccessful effort in the late 1990s to get a casino license for Detroit businessman Don Barden, plans to make another attempt to get the city to rebid its casino licenses.
The group then would call for the City Council to defend the ordinance and to ask that the city rebid its casino licenses. But because the city has previously signed contracts with three casino owners — Greektown LLC, MGM Grand Detroit and MotorCity — a ballot initiative could not constrain such a ruling and likely would be advisory.
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