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Tour of Battle Creek, Michigan
"Cereal
City U.S.A" • FireKeepers Casino • Calhoun
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FireKeepers
Casino is a 236,000-square-foot casino located at 11177 E. Michigan
Ave. in Battle Creek, Mich. It is owned by the Nottawaseppi Huron
Band of Potawatomi and managed by Gaming Entertainment (Michigan),
L.L.C., a joint venture between Full House Resorts and RAM Entertainment.
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Construction began May 7, 2008, and the casino opened to the general
public on August 5, 2009 at 10 a.m. EST.More than 47,000 vehicles
travel past the FireKeepers Casino location daily.
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The
casino itself has 2,680 state-of-the art slot machines, and 76 table
games, including blackjack, roulette, craps, big six and baccarat.
It has five restaurants, including a buffet, and also a sports bar
and cabaret. The gaming floor occupies 107,000 square feet, and
there are 3,000 parking spaces, 2,080 of them in a covered garage.
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What's
Next? Ground has been broken for an on-site hotel, and is expected
to be completed by the summer of 2012.
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Kellogg's
was founded as the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company on February
19, 1906, by Will Keith Kellogg as an outgrowth of his work with
his brother John Harvey Kellogg at the Battle Creek Sanitarium following
practices based on the Seventh-day Adventist Christian denomination.
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The
company produced and marketed the hugely successful Kellogg's Toasted
Corn Flakes and was renamed the Kellogg Company in 1922. In 1930,
the Kellogg Company announced that most of its factories would shift
towards 30 hour work weeks, from the usual 40.
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