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The new eight-story garage at Beaubien and Fort is designed to shorten the time guests have to wait to valet park and retrieve their vehicles.
Marvin Beatty, an investor and member of the Greektown Casino management board, said the casino has benefited the city just as much as the tribe. He noted that Greektown has paid $134 million in city gaming taxes and $106 million in Michigan gaming taxes since opening in 2000.
"There is a shared benefit here. Twenty-one hundred families are better off than they were five years ago," Beatty said. "Everyone is not supportive of gaming, but everyone is supportive of families. And we employ families. We are changing people's lives in this community."
Jenkins/Skanska, a joint venture of two Michigan construction firms, built the valet garage. The company also will handle building the permanent Greektown casino with a 400-room hotel, the new parking garage and an expansion of the gaming space at its current casino.
Greektown Casino had planned to build a $450-million casino-hotel project at I-375 and Gratiot but now plans to stay in its temporary casino spot in Greektown. It plans to spend $275 million on its hotel tower, parking lot, convention space and an expansion of its temporary casino.
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