Detroit is losing local gaming customers to casinos in Toledo, Ohio
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Unless your city is a marquee destination like Las Vegas or Macau that has more to offer visitors than loose slots, there's little to keep visitors loyal to one city over another.
Source: Toledo Blade
Author: Madeline Buxton
On a recent weekday, about 40 percent of the license plates in the Hollywood Casino Toledo parking lot featured the characteristic blue banner and Great Lakes panorama that denotes a Michigan vehicle.
Since the casino's late May opening, Michigan residents have come to Toledo to try their hand at the latest in gambling fare.
Michigan Gaming Control Board receipts for June reveal a corresponding, modest revenue decline at Detroit's three casinos compared with a year ago.
"I think our environment is more like a Las Vegas environment," Jason Birney, the vice president of marketing at Hollywood Casino Toledo, said regarding the new casino's attractiveness to out-of-staters. "We have a single floor, a nonsmoking environment, and brand-new machines."
Mr. Birney said about 30 percent of Hollywood's busin
