Detroit, as the nation's fifth-largest gaming market, is poised to
increase its market share significantly with the addition of 1,200 casino hotel
rooms.
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Tourism officials say they hope the casinos will help persuade
leisure travelers to check the city out - people like Don Lucy, a Lee,
Mass., resident who visited Detroit for the first time to watch the
Boston Red Sox play the Tigers at Comerica Park. The retired teacher
said he planned to return to Greektown later to hit the slots.
Friends balked when he told them he was visiting Detroit, and he
worried as he drove past smokestacks and grimy industrial landscapes.
"Once you get in the city central, it's beautiful, very nice," Lucy
said. "I'd like to come back out here again. I like Detroit. I never
thought I'd say that."
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